Anais Nin Quotes

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• It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Break Through, Risk, Bud

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

  Anais Nin

  Pride, Worry, Talent

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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.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

  Anais Nin

  Strength, Encouraging, Positive Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

  Anais Nin

  Profound, Abstract, Delicate

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• "We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

  Anais Nin

  Eye, Self Improvement, Doe

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• We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Heart

  "Journal of Phenomenological Psychology", (Vol. 15), 1984.

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• You cannot save people. You can only love them.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, People

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

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• Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Age

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• Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

  Anais Nin

  Acceptance, Imperfect, Teach

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• I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits

  Anais Nin

  Average, Unconventional, Want

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• Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

  Anais Nin

  Happiness, Thinking, Joy

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• I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

  Anais Nin

  Looks, Transformation, Quiet

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  Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Change, Failure

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

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• I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Fear, Mermaid

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• willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

  Anais Nin

  Prejudice, Protection, Weak

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• My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.

  Anais Nin

  Real, Adventure, Self

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• You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Stars, Fate

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• Violence is a symptom of impotence.

  Anais Nin

  Violence, Symptoms, Impotence

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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.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Running, Dream

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• I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.

  Anais Nin

  Romantic Love, Valentine's Day, Want

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• When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Mean, Different

  Anaïs Nin, “The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume 1: 1931-1934”

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