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«She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself.»
Author: Anais Nin
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admiration, care, confidence, craved, craves, eyes, insatiably, lacks, reflections
«It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.»
«Good things happen to those who hustle.»
«The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.»
«I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.»
«I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don?t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don?t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.»
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«Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.»
Author: Anais Nin
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Relationships
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contact, human being, precious, preserve, rare
«The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.»
«There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions»
Author: Anais Nin
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Freedom
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artist, Between Two Worlds, freedom, kinds, monk, possessions, powerful, renounces, renouncing, rich, The Monk, The Monks
«My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.»
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