Anaïs Nin quotes - page 2

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. (Anaïs Nin)
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. View quote
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No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. View quote
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Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons. View quote
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. View quote
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. View quote
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. View quote
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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. View quote
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself. View quote
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with. View quote
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. (Anaïs Nin)
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. View quote
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. View quote
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. View quote
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. View quote
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. View quote
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To lie, of course, is to engender insanity. View quote
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream. View quote
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. View quote
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. View quote
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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. (Anaïs Nin)
Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness. View quote
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. View quote
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. View quote
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The dream has to be translated into reality. View quote
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