Anais Nin Quotes - Page 17

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• One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Hypocrisy, Deception

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

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• I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to people’s lips in the face of great catastrophes which are beyond their grasp, the smile that comes at times on certain women’s faces while they are saying they regret the harm they have done. It is the smile of nature quietly and proudly asserting its natural right to kill.

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  Regret, People, Done

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• Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

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  Self, Monsters, World

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

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• The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads it out on his desk later, and then engages in a duel with it verbally. Some people call it weakness. I call it postponement. What is weakness in the man becomes a quality in the writer. For he preserves, collects what will explode later in his work. That is why the writer is the loneliest man in the world; because he lives, fights, dies, is reborn always alone; all his roles are played behind a curtain. In life he is an incongruous figure.

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  Fighting, Men, People

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• The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

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  Pain, Violence, Mystery

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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  Courage, Believe, Innocent

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• The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.

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  Strong, Cooking, Black

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• The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it's surprises, varied expressions, and mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.

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  Dream, Lying, Expression

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• New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

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  New York, Cities, Jazz

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• I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.

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  Leader, Want, Submission

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• Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

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  Dancer, Ballet, Vehemence

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• In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.

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  Joy, Solitude, Dreamer

  "Children of the Albatross". Book by Anais Nin, 1947.

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• My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.

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  Mind, Trunks

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• I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

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  Dream, Reality, World Love

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• People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.

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  Self, Indulge In, People

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• His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

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  Angel, Devil, Rhythm

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• She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mâché horse.

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  Horse, Self, Track

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• I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.

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  Self, Voice, Long

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• My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

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  Eye, Men, Race

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

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• Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

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  Zoos, Wall, Eye

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• I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.

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  Crush, Hurt, June

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• He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.

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  Soul, Body, Danger

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• To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

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  Skins, Evolve, Feels

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• I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.

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  Thinking, June, Genius

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• We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.

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  Kitchen, Mind, Exchanging

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