Anais Nin Quotes - Page 20

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• I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension

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  Space, Want, Dimensions

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• This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

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  Dream, Eye, Men

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

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• I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

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  Beautiful, Writing, Focus

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

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• The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

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  Diaries, Want, Evening

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• He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.

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  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Fall

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

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• I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

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  Confidence, Good Luck, Fate

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• I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

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  Book, Writing, Ignored

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• I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.

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  Beautiful, Psychics, World

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• The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.

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  Writing, Imagination, Black

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• He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away.

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  Smell, Like Me, Slips

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• While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.

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  Mother, Father, People

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• My diary seems to keep me whole.

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  Diaries, Journal, Whole

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• I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me

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  Discovery, Evil, Want

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• Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it, to run wild. Is it that which pushes me into lesbianism? It terrifies me. Do women act thus? Does June go to Henry when she wants him? Does she mount him? Does she wait for him? He guides my inexperienced hands. It is like a forest fire, to be with him. New places of my body are aroused and burnt. He is incendiary. I leave him in an unquenchable fever.

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  Running, Fire, June

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• Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally.

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  Taken, Wish, Portraits

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• The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

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  Giving, Body, Used

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

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• I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman

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  Believe, Thinking, Wife

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• Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

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  Political, Gone, Serious

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• One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.

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  Self, Cities, Needs

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• America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.

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  Hate, Artist, America

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• When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

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  World, Care, Firsts

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• Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

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  Writing, Vitality, Essentials

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• atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

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  Feelings, Criminals, Crime

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• He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

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  Ridiculous, Pity, Humiliating

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• A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.

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  Men, Magic, Ordinary

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