Anais Nin Quotes - Page 10

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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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• Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

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  Hate, Passion, Understanding

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• Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.

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  Character, Men, Secret

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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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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• 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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• 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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• Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.

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  Solitude, May, Moments

  "Collages" by Anais Nin, (p. 116), 1964.

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• The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.

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  Passion, Flames, Curiosity

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted to resuscitate such men by my own joyousness or luminosity.When I break glasses in a night club, as the Russians do, when my unconscious breaks out in wild rebellions, it is against life which has crippled these idealistic, romantic men. I respect these men, cold, pure, faithful, devoted, moral, delicate, sensitive, and unequal to life, more than I respect the tough-minded ones who return three blows to one received, who kill those who hurt them.

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  Hurt, Blow, Night

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• At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

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  Names, Trying, Add

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 7 (1966-1974)". Book by Anais Nin, 1981.

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• There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection.

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  Cancer, Silence, Joy

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• At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

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  Moon, Sixteen, Firsts

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• I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

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  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

  "The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927" by Anaïs Nin, Volume 3, September 2, 2014.

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• The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

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  Travel, Blessed, Passion

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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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• Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.

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  Doe, Needs, Forget

  Diary, Aug. 1937

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• We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

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  Dream, Reality, Influence

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

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• In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

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  Dream, Joy, Anxiety

  "Children of the Albatross". Book by Anais Nin, 1947.

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• In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.

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  Hurt, People, Childhood

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• A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

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  Love, Good Morning, Peace

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• When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.

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  Eye, Hands, Feet

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• ... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

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  America, Existence, Humiliating

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.

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  Laughter, Fall, Wine

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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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