How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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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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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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