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Anais Nin Quotes

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love Picture Quote #1

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman Picture Quote #1

Every individual is representative of the whole... and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology Picture Quote #1

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood Picture Quote #1

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you Picture Quote #1

The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty Picture Quote #1

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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life Picture Quote #1

The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision Picture Quote #1

Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously Picture Quote #1

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life Picture Quote #1

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too Picture Quote #1

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning Picture Quote #1

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A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies Picture Quote #1

The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation Picture Quote #1

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery Picture Quote #1

The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality Picture Quote #1

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us Picture Quote #1

I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life Picture Quote #1

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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her Picture Quote #1

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body Picture Quote #1

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise Picture Quote #1

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again Picture Quote #1

The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers Picture Quote #1

Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves Picture Quote #1

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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it Picture Quote #1

I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals Picture Quote #1

When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other’s thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day? Picture Quote #1

Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once Picture Quote #1

The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were sticking out because the clouds did not cover it altogether. There was a hole in them and the white feathers were falling out. The city had untied all its bridges like so many buttons to feel at ease. Wherever there was a lamplight the city scratched itself until it went out Picture Quote #1

The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelation of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might learn as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle against diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end, in our cursedly repercussive being Picture Quote #1

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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love (Anais Nin Quotes) We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman (Anais Nin Quotes) Every individual is representative of the whole... and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology (Anais Nin Quotes) I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood (Anais Nin Quotes) Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you (Anais Nin Quotes) The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty (Anais Nin Quotes) What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life (Anais Nin Quotes) The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision (Anais Nin Quotes) Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously (Anais Nin Quotes) I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life (Anais Nin Quotes) You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too (Anais Nin Quotes) Anxiety is love’s greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning (Anais Nin Quotes) A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies (Anais Nin Quotes) The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation (Anais Nin Quotes) I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery (Anais Nin Quotes) The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality (Anais Nin Quotes) We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us (Anais Nin Quotes) I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life (Anais Nin Quotes) Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her (Anais Nin Quotes) The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body (Anais Nin Quotes) Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise (Anais Nin Quotes) In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again (Anais Nin Quotes) The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers (Anais Nin Quotes) Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a particular tone of voice, from voice to voice, as the fetishist follows a beautiful foot, scarcely seeing the woman herself? A voice, a mouth, an eye, all stemming from the original fountain of our first desire, directing it, enslaving us, until we choose to unravel the fatal web and free ourselves (Anais Nin Quotes) He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it (Anais Nin Quotes) I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals (Anais Nin Quotes) When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other’s thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day? (Anais Nin Quotes) Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once (Anais Nin Quotes) The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were sticking out because the clouds did not cover it altogether. There was a hole in them and the white feathers were falling out. The city had untied all its bridges like so many buttons to feel at ease. Wherever there was a lamplight the city scratched itself until it went out (Anais Nin Quotes) The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelation of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might learn as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle against diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end, in our cursedly repercussive being (Anais Nin Quotes)

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