Best Anais Nin Quotes
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The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
Artist
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Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
Basic
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The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection…
Art
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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
Feelings
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
Excitable
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
Accurately
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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…
Awareness
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The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends…
Absence
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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Able
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I looked upon a clock to find the truth. The hours were passing like ivory chess figures, striking piano notes, and the minutes raced on…
Among
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
Been
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling,…
All
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I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so…
Box
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I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
Ahead
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
Been
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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 millions brings a…
Brings
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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
Artistically
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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 destroying that moment.
Alive
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Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
Either Worship
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
Believe
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
Experiment
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Each friend represents a world in us.
Each
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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
Art
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Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.
Cities
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But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and…
Artist
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