Anais Nin Quotes - Page 6

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• The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

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  Society, Favors, Patterns

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• If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

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  Teamwork, War, Fate

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• I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

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  Believe, Writing, World

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

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• Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

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  Alive, Life Is, Moments

  "D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers" by Leo Hamalian, (p. 93), 1996.

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• We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.

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  Evil, Politics, Cures

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• The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Making Love

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• I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

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  Want, Littles, Able

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• Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

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  Self, Needs, Hunger

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• To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

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  Thinking, Ordinary, Middle

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• Dreams are necessary to life.

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  Life, Happiness, Dream

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• The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.

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  Writing, Eye, Responsibility

  "Moving to Antarctica : An Anthology of Women's Writing". Book by Margaret Kaminski, 1975.

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• The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

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  Artist, Choices, Elements

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

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• When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

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  Desire, Feels, Rooted

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• Will you come down and kiss me good night?

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  Good Night, Kissing, Down And

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• We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

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  Feelings, Musical, Sound

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

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  People, Different, Different Peoples

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• I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

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  Wings, Use, Enough

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• We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Disappointment

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• It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

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  Ocean, Eye, Order

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• Passion gives me moments of wholeness.

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  Passion, Giving, Moments

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

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  Life, Love Is, Men

  "A Spy in the House of Love". Book by Anais Nin, 1954.

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• The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.

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  Mean, Discovery, People

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• We see things the way we are, not the way they are.

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  Way

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• The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

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  Hurt, Imagination, Doe

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• I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

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  Lying, Men, Mind

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