Anaïs Nin quotes - page 4

I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes. (Anaïs Nin)
I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama. View quote
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The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest. View quote
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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. View quote
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. View quote
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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive. View quote
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless. View quote
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I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique. View quote
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All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished. View quote
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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. View quote
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For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated. (Anaïs Nin)
I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry. View quote
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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. View quote
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. View quote
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The necessity for fiction was probably born of the problem of taboo on certain revelations. It was not only a need of the imagination but an answer to the limitations placed on portrayal of others. View quote
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Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life. View quote
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Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way. View quote
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Ecstasy is the moment of exaltation from wholeness! View quote
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This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams. View quote
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I would say that compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity. View quote
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We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection. (Anaïs Nin)
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers - you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance. View quote
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. View quote
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not care to be herself. View quote
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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. View quote
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