Anais Nin Quotes - Page 9

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• It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

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  Way, Easy

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• I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’

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  Dream, World, May

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

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  Feelings, Stronger, Reason

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• Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.

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  Lonely, Broken, Understanding

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• I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.

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  Book, Buying, Obsession

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• I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.

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  Lying, Soul, Costumes

  "Henry and June". Book by Anais Nin, 1986.

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• Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

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  Inspirational, Madness, Creation

  "Fire". Diary entries, October 18, 1936.

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• It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

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  Perfection, Forgiving, Innocence

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• There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

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  Powerful, Artist, Two

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• I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.

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  Strong, Next Day, Knowing

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

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• Everything but happiness is neurosis.

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  Neurosis

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 15, 1936.

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• If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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  Writing, Commitment, Culture

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

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• The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

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  Personality, Creative, World

  "The Novel of the Future". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

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  Self, Self Destruction, Destruction

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• It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

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  Firsts, Humans, Housework

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• Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.

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  Lying, Imagination, Feelings

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• In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

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  Trials, Scene, Accusation

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• My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

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  Life, Writing, Ideas

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• A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

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  Hands, Identity, Coats

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• Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

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  Killers, Mercy, Disillusioned

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• Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

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  Children, Cat, Mirrors

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• I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

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  Hobbies, I Can

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• I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

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  Dream, Book, Night

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• Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

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  People, Monsters, Creation

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• Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

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  Art, Failing

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