When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
ANAIS NINYour eyes make me shy.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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You cannot save people, you can only love them.
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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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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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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 fall in love with people’s minds.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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 want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
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