Quote by Anaïs Nin
When one is pretending the entire body revolts. - Anaïs Nin

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. – Anaïs Nin

Other quotes by Anaïs Nin

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

Category:
Feminism
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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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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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Miscellaneous
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. – Desiderius Erasmus

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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. – Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774

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Ride the energy of your own unique spirit. – Gabrielle Roth

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