Best Anais Nin Sayings
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
Beauty
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Adolescence is like cactus.
Adolescence
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
Anxiety
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A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
Beings
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The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the…
Accurately
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My diary seems to keep me whole.
Diaries
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
Compassion
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
Doe
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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his…
Artistically
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I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of…
All
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You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an…
Afraid
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I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.
Images
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
Experience
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
Always Wanted
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The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
Creation
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Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
All
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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, infinite meaning, infinite…
Dimension
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship…
According
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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.
Believe
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Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.
Association
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The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million…
Accepting
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Dreams are essential to life.
Dream
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It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of…
All
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Acceptance
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I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
Drama
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