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Psychology Quotes by Anais Nin

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You fall in love with people's minds.

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My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.

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We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

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We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.

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“Please understand I am in full rebellion against my own mind, that when I live, I live by impulse, by emotion, by…

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“Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.”

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Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which…

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“As he sits there, I feel that I can see his mind as I see his body, and it is labyrinthine, fertile,…

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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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“Slowly what she composed with the new day was her own focus, to bring together body and mind. This was made with…

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I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

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“…For love it is never the same. What goes on inside is never the same just like this music which changes every instant. For love there are a million variations, a million nights, a million days, contrasts in moods, in textures, whims, a million gestures colored by emotion, by sorrow, joy, fear, courage, triumph, by revelations which deepen the groove,…

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 dominated

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

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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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