Best Anais Nin Quotations
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To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
Course
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The dream has to be translated into reality.
Dream
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
Beginning
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only…
Action
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The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
Creative
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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
Born
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Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.
Demon
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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 creative…
Alive
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Jazz is the music of the body.
Body
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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
Body
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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to…
Ashamed
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No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted…
Altogether
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Memory is a great betrayer.
Betrayer
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Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.
Account
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I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.
Inspirational
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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 society's rules and…
Dangerous
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If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or…
Conscious
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
Aligned
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Abstract
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
Allowed
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I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
Animal
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The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
Compass
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Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.
Cat
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The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is…
Athletic
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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. They took place…
All
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