Anais Nin Quotes - Page 8

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• I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

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  Hate, Heart, Independent

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• Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

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  Business, Monsters, Politics

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• The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.

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  Depressing, Tired, Men

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• Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

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  Visionaries, Use, Decline

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• He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

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  Addiction, Drug, Doe

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• The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

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  Progress, Compass, Encyclopedia

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• Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

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  History, Prejudice, Blindness

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• Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

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  Mean, Self, Self Knowledge

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• Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

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  Life, Journey, Culture

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• I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naive faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.

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  Beautiful, Men, People

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• Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?

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  Moving

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• At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

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  Moon, Sixteen, Firsts

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• When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.

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  Eye, Hands, Feet

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

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• One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

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  Life, Moving, Passion

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• The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

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  Travel, Blessed, Passion

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• All unlived emotions turn to inanity.

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  Emotion, Turns

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• ... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

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  America, Existence, Humiliating

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• My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

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  Needs, Life Is

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

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  Inspirational, Life, Book

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1, 1931-1934.

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• I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

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  Ordinary World, Want, Proportion

  Diary entries, March 25, 1933.

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• I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

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  Snakes, Knowing, Battle

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• A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

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  Inspirational, War, Chance

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• The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

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  Dream, Earth, Opaque

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• We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.

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  Love Is, Self, Wish

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• Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

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  Hate, Passion, Understanding

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