Anaïs Nin quotes

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. (Anaïs Nin)
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. View quote
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People living deeply have no fear of death. View quote
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. View quote
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. View quote
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. View quote
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life. View quote
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Everything but happiness is neurosis. View quote
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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you. View quote
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. View quote
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. (Anaïs Nin)
Dreams are necessary to life. View quote
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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. View quote
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness. View quote
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. View quote
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. View quote
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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, a new country. View quote
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. View quote
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. View quote
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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living. View quote
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. (Anaïs Nin)
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. View quote
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Solitude may rust your words. View quote
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Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments. View quote
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In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection. View quote
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