Anais Nin Quotes - Page 6

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• I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

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  Truth, Use, Telling The Truth

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• Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

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  Family, Maturity, Compassion

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

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• Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

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  Gold, Ordinary, Alchemy

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• When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

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  Being Yourself, Acceptance, Unique

  "Winter of Artifice". Book by Anais Nin, 1939.

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• To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

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  Thinking, Ordinary, Middle

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• We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

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  Feelings, Musical, Sound

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

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  Insecurity, Unfamiliar, Hostile

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• You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.

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  Imagination, Demand, My Imagination

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• The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.

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  Weakness, Obstacles

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• Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

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  Alive, Life Is, Moments

  "D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers" by Leo Hamalian, (p. 93), 1996.

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• Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.

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  Lonely, Broken, Understanding

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• One handles truths like dynamite.

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  Truth, Dynamite, Handle

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

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• We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

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  Abyss

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• It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

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  Writing, Emotional, Movement

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• The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

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  Hurt, Imagination, Doe

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• Passion gives me moments of wholeness.

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  Passion, Giving, Moments

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

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  Wings, Use, Enough

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• I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

  Anais Nin

  People, Different, Different Peoples

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• Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

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  Love, Anxiety, Killers

  Diary, Feb. 1947

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• Introspection is a devouring monster.

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  Monsters, Devouring, Introspection

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• The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

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  Society, Favors, Patterns

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• Dreams are necessary to life.

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  Life, Happiness, Dream

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• The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.

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  Children, Endure, Shattering

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• myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

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  Instruments, Myth

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• I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

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  Lying, Men, Mind

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