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Your eyes make me shy. (Anaïs Nin)
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people's. View quote
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem. View quote
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite. View quote
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I love your silences, they are like mine. View quote
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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. View quote
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar. View quote
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy. View quote
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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. View quote
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often. View quote
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There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through. (Anaïs Nin)
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries. View quote
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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. View quote
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are. View quote
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The obstacle became his alibi for weakness. View quote
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There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work. View quote
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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. View quote
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I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life. View quote
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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. View quote
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. View quote
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest. (Anaïs Nin)
There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive. View quote
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The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams. View quote
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Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark. View quote
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I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it. View quote
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Anaïs Nin

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