Quote by Anaïs Nin
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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Writing
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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. – Anaïs Nin

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Feminism
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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. – Anaïs Nin

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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse. – Stanislaw J. Lec

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Most men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. – Montesquieu, Variètès

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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. – Frederic Chopin

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I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable. – Immanuel Kant

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Im not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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