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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• You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Reflection, Madness

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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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• The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

  Anais Nin

  Unity, Enough, Symbolic

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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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• 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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• 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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• We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Philosophy, Self

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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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• 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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• The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

  Anais Nin

  Moving On, Pain, Swimming

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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 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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• 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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• What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.

  Anais Nin

  Heart, Blood, Ebb And Flow

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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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• With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.

  Anais Nin

  Eye, Men, Flames

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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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• For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

  Anais Nin

  Joy, Mind, Way

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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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• We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

  Anais Nin

  Trapped

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• Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

  Anais Nin

  Pain, Masters

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Letting Go

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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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• You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Poet, Walks

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