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Dreams Quotes by Anais Nin

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Anais Nin imagines dreams as a race you chase, a miracle that runs ahead and invites you to catch up for a moment. She also sees dreams as a watery veil that hides the world, giving eyes the color of water. Finally, she warns that gold only arrives in dreams, not in waking life.

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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.

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The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.

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You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams...

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Dreams are essential to life.

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gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

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The dream has to be translated into reality.

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Dreams are necessary to life.

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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

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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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There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

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Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

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I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

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The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

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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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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned…

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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…

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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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The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his…

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In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming,…

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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…

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“Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels,…

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I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality…

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I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream,…

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“I suffered from other kinds of pangs. I was prone to the most excessive dreaming, of such intensity and realism that when…

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“To capture the drama of the unconscious, one had to start with the key, and the key was the dream. But the…

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“How to live as divided cells — voilà! Something always eludes the scientists, the poets, the stargazers, the biologists, the anthropologists. Something…

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“A marine snail gliding through the familiar city. Only in a dream could I move so gently along with the small human…

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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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“Why is that I never get cut off from pity, sympathy, participation, in spite of the fact that I am living out…

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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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“And now I lost my last treasure: the dreaming. For nothing in the dreams took the place of the human warmth I…

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“The drug of love was no escape, for in its coils lie latent dreams of greatness which awaken when men and women…

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“What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favour of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the…

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“Her lack of confidence in life, in realization, in the fulfillment of her desires, in the outcome of a dream, in the…

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“It is undeniable that the source of all our miseries comes from our obstinacy in maintaining that Paradise is a garden. The…

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“All through the dream there was a sense of great disorder, of movements which accomplished nothing, of everything being late, of everybody…

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This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing…

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My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through…

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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…

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

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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.