Anais Nin Quotes - Page 18

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• Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

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  Zoos, Wall, Eye

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• Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

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  Self, Monsters, World

  "House of Incest". Book by Anais Nin, 1936.

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• To love and to labor is the sum of living.

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  Labor

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• To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

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  Suicide, Sacrifice, Triumph

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• To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.

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  Animal, Realization, World

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• I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

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  Husband, Father, Believe

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• Great repressions create dualities.

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  Denial, Duality, Repression

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• To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

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  Skins, Evolve, Feels

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• I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.

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  Crush, Hurt, June

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• Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

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  House, And Love, Turns

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• gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

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  Dream, Dreamer, Gold

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• My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.

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  Mind, Trunks

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• He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.

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  Soul, Body, Danger

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• I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.

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  Leader, Want, Submission

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• I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.

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  Beautiful, Men, Firsts

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• Our love lives because I live.

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  Love Life, Our Love

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• Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

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  Indirect, Womanly, Delicate

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• She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mâché horse.

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  Horse, Self, Track

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• People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.

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  Self, Indulge In, People

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• We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.

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  Minorities, Research, Alive

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• I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

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  Rushing, Joy, Moments

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• Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

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  Artist, Flow, Currents

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• All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

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  Tragedy, Trying, Mystery

  "Under a Glass Bell". Book by Anais Nin, 1944.

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• I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

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  Dream, Unique, Bird

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• Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

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  Anxiety, Killers, Drowning

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