I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
ANAIS NINWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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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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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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