Anais Nin Quotes - Page 13

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• Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

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  Writing, Two, Reactions

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• The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.

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  Book, Writing, Journey

  "French Writers of the Past" by Carol A. Dingle, (p. 126), 2000.

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• Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

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  Life, Children, Pain

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• Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves.

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  Beautiful, Couple, Real

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• The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

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  Cells, Soul, Photographer

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• I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on wires mounted like tin soldiers. Hours like tall ebony women with gongs between their legs, tolling continuously so that I could not count them. I heard the rolling of my heart-beats; I heard the footsteps of my dreams, and the beat of time was lost among them like the face of truth.

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  Dream, Heart, Ivory

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• I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.

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  Laughing, Together, Doe

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• In my dreams I sleep with everybody.

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  Dream, Sleep

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• I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.

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  Knives, Want, Worship

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• What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

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  Happiness, Rain, Fall

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• Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

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  Joy, Twists, Abnormal

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• the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

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  Coward, Surprise, Cynicism

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• We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

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  Labels, Matter, Speak

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• The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

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  Creativity, Creation, Core

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• I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

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  Real, Drama, Profound

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• When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.

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  Flower, Paris, White

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• Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.

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  Giving, Understanding, Individuality

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• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein 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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  Art, Giving, Magic

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• Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

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  Opposites, Suffering, Desire

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• To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

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  Writing

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• I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.

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  Sex, Men, Feelings

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

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• Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.

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  Mean, Levitation, Way

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• The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

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  Wish, Insincerity, Bases

  "The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume One (1931-1934)" by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelation of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might learn as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle against diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end, in our cursedly repercussive being.

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  Pain, Memories, Struggle

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• In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

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  Music, Passing, Feels

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