Anais Nin Quotes - Page 8

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• Ordinary life does not interest me.

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  Ordinary, Doe, Interest

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.

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  People, Independence, Needs

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• The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

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  Passion, Personality, Moments

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• Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

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  Love, Dream, Collective Unconscious

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• I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

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  Love You, Power, People

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• My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

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  Needs, Life Is

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.

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  Depressing, Tired, Men

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• Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

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  Death, Sister In Law, Dying

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• The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

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  Dream, Earth, Opaque

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• I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naive faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.

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  Beautiful, Men, People

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• Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. 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. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

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  Illumination, Space, Tree

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• I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

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  Ordinary World, Want, Proportion

  Diary entries, March 25, 1933.

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• The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.

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  Sacrifice, Men, Other Worlds

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• He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

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  Jealous, Past

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

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• If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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  Writing, Commitment, Culture

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

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• The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

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  Feelings, Vision, Creation

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• There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

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  Vision, Madness

  "La casa dell'incesto".

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• The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

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  Personality, Creative, World

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

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• Jazz is the music of the body.

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  Body, Jazz, Jazz Music

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• Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.

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  Lying, Imagination, Feelings

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• Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

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  Self, Needs, Hunger

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• I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

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  Snakes, Knowing, Battle

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• There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

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  Inspirational, Life, Book

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1, 1931-1934.

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• Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

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  Visionaries, Use, Decline

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