Anais Nin Quotes
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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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
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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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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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