Anais Nin Quotes - Page 12

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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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  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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• In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

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  Hurt, People, Childhood

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• If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

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  Children, Mean, Eye

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• All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

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  World, Sacred, Taboo

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• Solitude may rust your words.

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  Solitude, Rust, May

  "Collages" by Anais Nin, (p. 116), 1964.

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• Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

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  Writing, Two, Reactions

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• All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

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  Broken, Effort, Connections

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• Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

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  Art, Asia, Language

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• Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

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  Dream, Flaws, Failing

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• Adolescence is like cactus.

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  Cactus, Adolescence

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• Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

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  Long, Perfect, Imagination

  "Henry and June: from the unexpurgated diary of Anaïs Nin". Book by Anais Nin, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. 24, 1986.

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• To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.

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  Lying, Insanity, Courses

  "Henry and June: From A Journal of Love: the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin". Book by Anaïs Nin, 1986.

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• I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

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  New York, Animal, Missing

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• Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.

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  Joy, Sensual, Body

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• There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.

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  Men, Two, Feelings

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• I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ

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  Heart, Giving, Fool

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• I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

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  Love You, Power, People

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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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  Love, Inspirational, Passing By

  The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 5 1947-1955: Vol. 5 (1947-1955) (p. 272), Mach 26, 1975.

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• There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

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  Attitude, Book, Leaving

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• Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

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  Life, Children, Pain

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• The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

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  Cells, Soul, Photographer

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• Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.

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  Beautiful, Couple, Real

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• The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Writing, Journey

  "French Writers of the Past" by Carol A. Dingle, (p. 126), 2000.

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• I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.

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  Knives, Want, Worship

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• I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.

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  Laughing, Together, Doe

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