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Mind Quotes by Anais Nin
- 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 want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his…
- I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
- I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The…
- [in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of…
- Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,…
- For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you…
- We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.
- To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live…
- 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…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle