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Anais Nin quotes: But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again. But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again.
Anais Nin quotes: When I saw you, Sabina, I chose my body. When I saw you, Sabina, I chose my body.
Anais Nin quotes: Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life. Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Anais Nin quotes: Around her hair there was a saffron aureole, and her skin was a sea shell ... Around her hair there was a saffron aureole, and her skin was a sea shell ...
Anais Nin quotes: Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it. Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.
Anais Nin quotes: In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being. In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.
Anais Nin quotes: Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge. Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.
Anais Nin quotes: Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy. Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
Anais Nin quotes: I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds. I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.
Anais Nin quotes: All unlived emotions turn to inanity ... All unlived emotions turn to inanity ...
Anais Nin quotes: I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth. I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
Anais Nin quotes: We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us. We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
Anais Nin quotes: When one is pretending, the entire body revolts. When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
Anais Nin quotes: Fools compare... the wise enjoy. Fools compare... the wise enjoy.
Anais Nin quotes: What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is. What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
Anais Nin quotes: Adolescence is like cactus. Adolescence is like cactus.
Anais Nin quotes: Whereas by desiring someone who would not desire her, she could allow this fire to burn and feel: how alive I am! I am capable of desire. Whereas by desiring someone who would not desire her, she could allow this fire to burn and feel: how alive I am! I am capable of desire.
Anais Nin quotes: The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating. The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating.
Anais Nin quotes: All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished. All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
Anais Nin quotes: The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself. The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.
Anais Nin quotes: You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz. You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz.
Anais Nin quotes: The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure. The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.
Anais Nin quotes: She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only. She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.
Anais Nin quotes: I always have difficulty with people who are not openly warm, expressive. I need a certain sign, a certain invitation. I always have difficulty with people who are not openly warm, expressive. I need a certain sign, a certain invitation.
Anais Nin quotes: Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anais Nin quotes: I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ
Anais Nin quotes: You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination. You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
Anais Nin quotes: Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me. Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.
Anais Nin quotes: To love and to labor is the sum of living. To love and to labor is the sum of living.
Anais Nin quotes: There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin quotes: I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood. I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
Anais Nin quotes: We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Anais Nin quotes: 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. 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.
Anais Nin quotes: When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin quotes: You loved a man who treated you like absinthe, half poison and half god. You loved a man who treated you like absinthe, half poison and half god.
Anais Nin quotes: To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry. To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
Anais Nin quotes: Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything. Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.
Anais Nin quotes: When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin quotes: Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais Nin quotes: It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar. It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
Anais Nin quotes: Archaeologists of the soul never return empty-handed. Archaeologists of the soul never return empty-handed.
Anais Nin quotes: My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness. My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.
Anais Nin quotes: There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through. There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.
Anais Nin quotes: Jazz is the music of the body. Jazz is the music of the body.
Anais Nin quotes: She acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience. She acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
Anais Nin quotes: I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Anais Nin quotes: The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
Anais Nin quotes: I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things. I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.
Anais Nin quotes: What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble. What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
Anais Nin quotes: Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
Anais Nin quotes: Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer. Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
Anais Nin quotes: Every disconnection is death. Every disconnection is death.
Anais Nin quotes: Her hair was full of lights Her hair was full of lights
Anais Nin quotes: You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Anais Nin quotes: I was shy, withdrawn, and read obsessionally. But I never wanted to be anyone else other than me. I was shy, withdrawn, and read obsessionally. But I never wanted to be anyone else other than me.
Anais Nin quotes: I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
Anais Nin quotes: We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks. We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks.
Anais Nin quotes: I would like to be naked and cover myself with cold crystal jewelry. Jewelery and perfume... I would like to be naked and cover myself with cold crystal jewelry. Jewelery and perfume...
Anais Nin quotes: And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity... And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity...
Anais Nin quotes: We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are
Anais Nin quotes: 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 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
Anais Nin quotes: I write emotional algebra. I write emotional algebra.
Anais Nin quotes: Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons. Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.
Anais Nin quotes: I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me. I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
Anais Nin quotes: The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
Anais Nin quotes: everywhere i miss you. everywhere i miss you.
Anais Nin quotes: You cannot save people. You can only love them. You cannot save people. You can only love them.
Anais Nin quotes: Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Anais Nin quotes: I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman. I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
Anais Nin quotes: I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now. I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
Anais Nin quotes: Perhaps the only magician we have is the artist. Perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
Anais Nin quotes: I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them. I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
Anais Nin quotes: We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
Anais Nin quotes: Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence. Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.
Anais Nin quotes: I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison. I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
Anais Nin quotes: To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice. To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.
Anais Nin quotes: He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals. He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals.
Anais Nin quotes: The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted. The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.
Anais Nin quotes: This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
Anais Nin quotes: Destruction is ultimately self-destruction. Destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
Anais Nin quotes: Only love begets love. Only love begets love.
Anais Nin quotes: To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living. To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
Anais Nin quotes: In my dreams I sleep with everybody. In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
Anais Nin quotes: Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between your legs. Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between your legs.
Anais Nin quotes: Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity. Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
Anais Nin quotes: When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color. When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.
Anais Nin quotes: Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul - you create suffering. Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul - you create suffering.
Anais Nin quotes: I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
Anais Nin quotes: She fell in love with an extinct volcano. She fell in love with an extinct volcano.
Anais Nin quotes: I wanted to remember in order to be able to return. I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.
Anais Nin quotes: This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun. This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
Anais Nin quotes: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin quotes: I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise. I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.
Anais Nin quotes: I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams. I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
Anais Nin quotes: Dreams are essential to life. Dreams are essential to life.
Anais Nin quotes: The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything. The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
Anais Nin quotes: Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself. Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Anais Nin quotes: I'm sick of my own romanticism! I'm sick of my own romanticism!
Anais Nin quotes: The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early. The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
Anais Nin quotes: You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars. You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

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