Anaïs Nin quotes - page 5

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death) absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. (Anaïs Nin)
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. View quote
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. View quote
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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. View quote
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can't be loved as I am. View quote
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We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones. View quote
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It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. View quote
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself. View quote
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses. View quote
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I want to love you wildly. I don't want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced. View quote
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You live out the confusions until they become clear. (Anaïs Nin)
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. View quote
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me. View quote
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in. View quote
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I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. View quote
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I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits. View quote
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth. View quote
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales. View quote
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. View quote
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. View quote
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From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life. (Anaïs Nin)
In chaos, there is fertility. View quote
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves. View quote
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You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination. View quote
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When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself. View quote
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Anaïs Nin

Occupation: American Author
Born: February 21, 1903
Died: January 14, 1977
Quotes count: 284
Wikipedia: Anaïs Nin

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