Anais Nin Quotes - Page 9

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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.

  Anais Nin

  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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• Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

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  Visionaries, Use, Decline

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• Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

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  History, Prejudice, Blindness

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• He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

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  Addiction, Drug, Doe

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• Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

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  Art, Asia, Language

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• Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

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  Life, Journey, Culture

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• Dreams are essential to life.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Psychics

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• Will you come down and kiss me good night?

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  Good Night, Kissing, Down And

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• I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.

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  Strong, Next Day, Knowing

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

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• Everything but happiness is neurosis.

  Anais Nin

  Neurosis

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 15, 1936.

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• We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.

  Anais Nin

  Love Is, Self, Wish

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• It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

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  Way, Easy

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• Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.

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  Men, Sensual, Joyous

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• I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

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  Dream, Book, Night

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• I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’

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  Dream, World, May

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• One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

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  Life, Moving, Passion

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• 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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  Mind, Want, Submission

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• Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

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  Business, Monsters, Politics

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• Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

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  Self, Balance, Association

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• Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

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  Inspirational, Madness, Creation

  "Fire". Diary entries, October 18, 1936.

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• All unlived emotions turn to inanity.

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  Emotion, Turns

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• The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

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  Wall, Giving, Sensual

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

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• Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

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  Art, Failing

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• My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

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  Life, Writing, Ideas

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