Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
ANAIS NINI believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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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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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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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