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Inspirational Quotes by Anais Nin

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I don't mind working hard to hold my ground, says Anais Nin. She writes about how our dreams often run ahead of us and how we shape others like sculptors. She also reminds us that life reflects what we think, and the unknown can guide us like a compass.

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To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.

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Violence is a symptom of impotence.

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I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

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When you possess light within, you see it externally.

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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

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Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

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Dreams are essential to life.

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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

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Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and 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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because…

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I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part…

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A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

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

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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too…

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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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“That night Fay became a woman, making a secret of her pain, intent on saving her happiness with Albert, on showing wisdom…

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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against…

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From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in…

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Adolescence is like cactus.

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Everything but happiness is neurosis.

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Each friend represents a world in us.

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The dream has to be translated into reality.

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Memory is a great betrayer.

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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

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Solitude may rust your words.

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My diary seems to keep me whole.

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We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .

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

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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.

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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

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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.