Anais Nin Quotes - Page 16

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• ... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

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  Secret, Curtains, Sigh

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• The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.

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  Unconscious, Ifs, Disregarded

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

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• Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

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  Travel, Paradise, Illusion

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• ... only love begets love.

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  Love Is, Only Love, Begets

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• Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.

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  Kissing, Reality, Two

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• Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

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  Art, Hate, Men

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• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

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  Life, Time, Illumination

  Diary entries, 1943.

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• Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.

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  Beautiful, Makeup, Thinking

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

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• Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

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  Science, Poet, Scientist

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• Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

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  Self, Suffering, Patterns

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• I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

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  Boyfriend, Father, Long

  1944 Under a Glass Bell,'Birth'.

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• I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

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  Hate, Believe, Judging

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• the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.

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  Beautiful, Drawing, Cities

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• If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

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  Life, Cracks, May

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• The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.

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  Emotional, Diaries, Taught

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• There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.

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  Men, Night, Two

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• Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

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  Dancer, Ballet, Vehemence

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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.

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  Joy, Solitude, Dreamer

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

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• I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

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  Abnormal, Reassurance, Despise

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• Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

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  People, Hopelessness

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• They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

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  Men, Faces, Fantasy

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• I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.

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  Believe, Swear, Spells

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• Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

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  Friendship, Keys, Wife

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• notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

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  Music, Way, Infinite

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• Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.

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  New York, Two, Paris

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