Anais Nin Quotes
French-born author of Spanish, Cuban, and Danish descent who became famous for her published journals, which span more than sixty years, and for her erotica.
(1903 - 1977)
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[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
[Friendship]
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
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A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
[War]
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
[Nature]
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
[Anxiety]
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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
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Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
[Self Control]
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
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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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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
[Action]
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
[Being]
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
[Friendship]
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Ecstasy is the moment of exaltation from wholeness!
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Electric flesh-arrows traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
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Everything but happiness is neurosis.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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