| 28 Famous Quotes by Anais Nin
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“He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.”
Gifts Quotes |
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“Jazz is the music of the body”
Jazz Quotes |
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“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
Meaning Quotes |
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
Men Quotes |
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“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
People Quotes |
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“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Religion Quotes |
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
Strength Quotes |
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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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.”
World Quotes |
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“Dreams are necessary to life.”
Dreams Quotes |
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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.”
Dreams Quotes |
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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
Literary Quotes |
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Courage Quotes |
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“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.”
Kites Quotes |
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.”
Courage Quotes |
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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.”
Death / immortality Quotes |
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“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
Love Quotes |
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“We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin.”
Perception Quotes |
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“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull...”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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“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."”
Miscellaneous Quotes |
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Anais Nin Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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