Anais Nin Quotes

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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  Break Through, Risk, Bud

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• My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

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  Pride, Worry, Talent

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• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

  Anais Nin

  Strength, Encouraging, Positive Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

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  Life, Giving, Dies

  "Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937". Book by Anaïs Nin, 1995.

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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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  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• "We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

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  Eye, Self Improvement, Doe

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• I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

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  Profound, Abstract, Delicate

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• There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

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  Love, Kissing, Two

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• You cannot save people. You can only love them.

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  Inspirational, Life, People

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

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• We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

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  Love, Life, Heart

  "Journal of Phenomenological Psychology", (Vol. 15), 1984.

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• I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

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  Hate, Struggle, Sincerity

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• What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.

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  Heart, Blood, Ebb And Flow

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• The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

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  Moving On, Pain, Swimming

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• Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

  Anais Nin

  Pain, Masters

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• The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

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  Children, Real, Lying

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• Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

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  Happiness, Thinking, Joy

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

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  Love, Life, Letting Go

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• Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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  Inspirational Music, Together, Body

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• We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

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  Trapped

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• I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

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  Ordinary World, Ecstasy, Tempo

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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, Change, Failure

  "The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin" by Evelyn J. Hinz, (p. 40), 1971.

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• With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.

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  Eye, Men, Flames

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