Anais Nin Quotes

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

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• "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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• 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 want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Joy, Piercings

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• I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

  Anais Nin

  Miracle, Anticipation, Walks

  Anais Nin (1992). “La casa dell'incesto”, p.42, Feltrinelli Editore

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

  Anais Nin

  Desire, Feels, Rooted

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• No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Should

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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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• 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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• Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

  Anais Nin

  Break Up, Creating, People

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• The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

  Anais Nin

  Moving On, Pain, Swimming

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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 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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• What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

  Anais Nin

  Passion, Sensual, Fusion

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

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  Profound, Abstract, Delicate

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• We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

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  Trapped

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• Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Shame, About Yourself

  "Why Men Fall Out of Love : The Secrets They Don't Tell" by Michael French, (p. 142), 2005.

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• Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

  Anais Nin

  Soul, Suffering, Yearning

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• The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.

  Anais Nin

  Alchemist, Magic, Gold

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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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