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Time Quotes by Anais Nin

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Anais Nin describes a dream that always runs ahead, and the miracle of catching up for a moment. She warns that phones and radios can take the place of real human closeness. She believes writing lets us taste life once while we live and again when we look back.

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

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Passion gives me moments of wholeness

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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

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Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without…

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When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time…

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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was…

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There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not…

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“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.”

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“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to…

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“No moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sorrows, growths,…

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But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have…

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“There are things one reads that make you aware that you have lived nothing, felt nothing, experienced nothing up to that time.…

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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their…

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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You…

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I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space,…

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The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with…

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That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life…

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The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive.…

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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the…

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There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have…

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The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and…

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It amazes me that you feel that each time you write a story you give away one of your dreams and you…

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I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary…

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“In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.…

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I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am…

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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.…

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“Henry's recollections of the past, in contrast to Proust, are done while in movement. He may remember his first wife while making…

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“The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence. Every…

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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to…

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I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new…

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We write to taste life twice, first in the moment and second in retrospect

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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the risk it took to…

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“I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you.…

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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our…

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Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently…

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I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection.…

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I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less…

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and…

In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not…

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

“Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between…

The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

I write emotional algebra.

The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the…

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.