Anais Nin Quotes - Page 21

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• ..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

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  Latin, Expression, Feelings

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• I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.

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  Believe, Dark, Men

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• Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.

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  Writing, Age, Needs

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• Hollywood is a mirage factory.

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  Hollywood, Mirages, Factories

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• She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.

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  Taken, Feelings, Shadow

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• Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.

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  Book, Light, People

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• She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.

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  Fall, Clothes, Bed

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• A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

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  Artist, Expansion, Enough

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• Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!

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  Children, Cities, Long

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• We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.

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  Lying, Twists, Passionate

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• Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.

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  Flower, Sunset, Blood

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• The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.

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  Summer, Paws, Summer Days

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• You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

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  Realizing, Defects, Humans

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• At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

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  Confused, World, Firsts

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• She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.

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  Fall, Winter, June

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• I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.

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  Crush, Growing, Enormous

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• One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

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  Truth, May, Gains

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• I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am not trying to think any more. I can't think when I am with you. You are like me, wishing for a perfect moment, but nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way. Neither one of us can say just the right thing. We are overwhelmed. Let us be overwhelmed. It is so lovely, so lovely. I love you June.

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  Love You, Thinking, June

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• Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver. And one thinks them insincere. Yet I want to believe her. At the same time it does not seem so very important that she should love me. It is not her role. I am so filled with my love of her. And at the same time I feel that I am dying. Our love would be death. The embrace of imaginings.

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  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves me (having realized that nobody will ever love me in that overabundant, overexpressive, overthoughtful, overhuman way I love people), and so I will wait for him. So I ask taxi driver to drop me at the Galeries Lafayette, where I begin to look for a new hat and to shop for Christmas. Pride? I don't know. A kind of wise retreat. I need people too much. So I bury my gigantic defect, my overflow of love, under trivialities, like a child. I amuse myself with a new hat.

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  Wise, Children, Pride

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