Anais Nin Quotes - Page 19

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• I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.

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  Regret, Silence, Ease

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• The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

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  Monsters, Transformation, Creation

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• All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

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  Art, Analysis, Evolution

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• If you can't create, you destroy.

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  Creativity, Destruction, Ifs

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• I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.

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  Believe, Night, Evil

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• Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

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  Writing, Duplicity, Generosity

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• It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?

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  Thinking, Ideas, Silence

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• Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.

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  Lying, Reality, Organization

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• When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

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  Writing, Fire, Color

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

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• The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

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  Children, Father, Men

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• But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

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  Inspiring, Artist, Empowering

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• The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were sticking out because the clouds did not cover it altogether. There was a hole in them and the white feathers were falling out. The city had untied all its bridges like so many buttons to feel at ease. Wherever there was a lamplight the city scratched itself until it went out.

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  Fall, Clouds, Bridges

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• If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

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  Truth, Moving, Shifting

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• To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

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  Writing, Temperature, Should

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• The dream has to be translated into reality.

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  Dream, Reality

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

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• At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

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  Suicide, June, Imagination

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• The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

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  Character, America, Shells

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• The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

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  Powerful, Husband, Grows

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• The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an act of justice. But they will only suck you dry, wear out your energy, nourish themselves on your ideas. After being the most compassionate man in the world, I say to you today: Let the weak ones die, let them commit suicide.

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  Suicide, Men, Thinking

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• We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.

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  Powerful, Greatness, Feelings

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• How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.

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  Stress, Rich Life, Burning

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• The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.

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  Finals, Lessons

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

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• The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

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  Life, Children, Abuse

  "French Writers of the Past" by Carol A. Dingle, (p. 127), 2000.

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.

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  Inspirational Life, People, No Fear

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• The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

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  Children, Dad, Father

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