If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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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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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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