Anais Nin Quotes - Page 4

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• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Moving On, Death

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)" by Anais Nin, (p. 190), March 19, 1969.

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• I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

  Anais Nin

  Miracle, Anticipation, Walks

  Anais Nin (1992). “La casa dell'incesto”, p.42, Feltrinelli Editore

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• How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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• We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

  Anais Nin

  Women, Self, Historical

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• I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, Healing, Revolution

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• We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Writing, Heart

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

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• The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Wisdom, Understanding

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• The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud
  is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom.
  We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Risk, Bud

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• The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.

  Anais Nin

  Voice, Vision, Poverty

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• The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Lenses, World

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• I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.

  Anais Nin

  Blood, Voice, Ears

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• Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.

  Anais Nin

  Inhumanity, Hospitals

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• Write. Write until it stops hurting.

  Anais Nin

  Hurt, Writing

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• Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

  Anais Nin

  Passion, Different Experiences, Becoming

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

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• Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Positive, Gratitude

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• The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.

  Anais Nin

  Weakness, Obstacles

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• One handles truths like dynamite.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Dynamite, Handle

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

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• When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

  Anais Nin

  Being Yourself, Acceptance, Unique

  "Winter of Artifice". Book by Anais Nin, 1939.

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• What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Acceptance, What Is Love

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• Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

  Anais Nin

  Form, Seems

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• The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational Life, Memorable, Writing

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• I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Use, Telling The Truth

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• Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

  Anais Nin

  World, Stand Alone

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• Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

  Anais Nin

  Break Up, Creating, People

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• Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

  Anais Nin

  Strength, Sisterhood, Men

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