Anais Nin Quotes About Ugliness

Quotes about: Ugliness

• I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’

  Anais Nin

  Dream, World, May

• There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

  Anais Nin

  Doe, Paid, Ugliness

• To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Mistake, Mean

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