I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
ANAIS NINLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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