Anais Nin Quotes
Anais Nin Quotes
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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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.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
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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 naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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