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How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
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.
The Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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 na�ve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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