Anais Nin Quotes - Page 4

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• When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

  Anais Nin

  Being Yourself, Tolerance, World

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

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• Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational Music, Together, Body

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• The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

  Anais Nin

  Children, Real, Lying

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• When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

  Anais Nin

  Honesty, Bears, Ethics

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, November 1933.

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• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

  Anais Nin

  Marriage, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

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  Inspirational Life, Memorable, Writing

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• Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

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  Inspirational, Behaviour, Abnormal

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• Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are

  Anais Nin

  Way

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• Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

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  Suffering, Enchantment, Stories

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• it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

  Anais Nin

  Freedom, Helping Others, Helping

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• I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Passion, Wish

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• Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Positive, Gratitude

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• The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Love Is, Men

  "A Spy in the House of Love". Book by Anais Nin, 1954.

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• The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Sex, Laughter

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• I love your silences, they are like mine.

  Anais Nin

  Silence, Vehement, Mines

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

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• Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

  Anais Nin

  Circles, Full Circle, Life Is

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• I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

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  Believe, Healing, Revolution

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• You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.

  Anais Nin

  Love You, Reflection, Madness

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• Violence is a symptom of impotence.

  Anais Nin

  Violence, Symptoms, Impotence

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• Perfection is static,
  And
  I am in full progress.

  Anais Nin

  Perfection, Progress, Static

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• The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

  Anais Nin

  Unity, Enough, Symbolic

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• We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

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  Women, Self, Historical

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• Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

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  Love, Pregnancy, Understanding

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