Anais Nin Quotes - Page 11

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• A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

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  Hands, Identity, Coats

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• The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.

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  Revenge, Men, Needs

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• Each friend represents a world in us.

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  World

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

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• [in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.

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  Destiny, Soul, Dreamer

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• Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

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  Home, Thinking, Cities

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• You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

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  Believe, World, Picnics

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

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  Analysis, Brake, Paralyzed

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• I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.

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  Love, Flower, Heart

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• Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

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  Country, Art, War

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

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• Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.

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  Children, Cat, Mirrors

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• destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

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  Self, Self Destruction, Destruction

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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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  Firsts, Humans, Housework

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• Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

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  People, Monsters, Creation

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• Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

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  Killers, Mercy, Disillusioned

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• The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.

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  Artist, Men, Ivory Tower

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• I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.

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  Sleep, Clouds, Feet

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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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  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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• In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

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  Trials, Scene, Accusation

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• The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.

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  Children, Lying, Men

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• The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

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  Men, Enclosure, One Woman

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• When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?

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  Believe, People, Virtue

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• I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.

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  Writing, Records, Needed

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• Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.

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  Night, Hammocks, Lovers

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• If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

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  Happiness, Knowledge, Fever

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• You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers - you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance.

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  Clever, Thinking, Ideas

  "Henry and June". Book by Anais Nin, 1986.

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