Anais Nin Quotes - Page 14

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• I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.

  Anais Nin

  Sex, Men, Feelings

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

  Anais Nin

  Men, Humans, Dies

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• I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.

  Anais Nin

  Hate, I Hate

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• The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.

  Anais Nin

  Boredom, Way

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• 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.

  Anais Nin

  Letting Go, Thirsty, Shackles

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• The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.

  Anais Nin

  Morning, Book, Heart

  "House of Incest". Book by Anais Nin, 1936.

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• although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

  Anais Nin

  Time, Hate, Believe

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• I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

  Anais Nin

  Unique, Ideas, Should

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

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• Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

  Anais Nin

  Secret, Needs, Born

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• Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.

  Anais Nin

  Guilt, Bears, Burden

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• Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

  Anais Nin

  Creative, Desire, Doe

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• He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

  Anais Nin

  Jealous, Past

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

  Anais Nin

  Expansion, Depth, Emotion

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• We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

  Anais Nin

  Abyss

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• To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

  Anais Nin

  Writing

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• I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.

  Anais Nin

  Falling In Love, Block, Men

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Writing, Prison

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• I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and there come an end to the interest, and this never happens in a journal!

  Anais Nin

  Busy, Moments, Ends

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• I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.

  Anais Nin

  Attitude, Believe, Organization

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

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

  Anais Nin

  Doe, Paid, Ugliness

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• Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Anxiety, Killers

  Diary, Feb. 1947

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• I write emotional algebra.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Emotional, Algebra

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• She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.

  Anais Nin

  Heart, Two, Desire

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• I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

  Anais Nin

  Friendship, Cute Best Friend, Enough

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• When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Fire, Color

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