How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINThe possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
More Anais Nin Quotes
-
-
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NIN -
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NIN -
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NIN -
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.
ANAIS NIN -
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
ANAIS NIN -
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NIN -
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
ANAIS NIN -
One handles truths like dynamite.
ANAIS NIN -
We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
ANAIS NIN -
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
ANAIS NIN -
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
ANAIS NIN -
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
ANAIS NIN -
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
ANAIS NIN -
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
ANAIS NIN -
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
ANAIS NIN