Best Anais Nin Words
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Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
Imagination
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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
Inspirational
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One handles truths like dynamite.
Dynamite
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The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing…
All
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I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The…
Adventure
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Solitude may rust your words.
Inspirational
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The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not…
Alcohol
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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 of me. They…
Costumes
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I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
Dealing
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I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world.…
All
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At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs Anaïs Anaïs. You just say…
Accent
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This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to…
Difficult
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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
Bases
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In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.
Alone
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Everything but happiness is neurosis.
Funny
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One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
All
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Age
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Bad Ass
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or…
Believe
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world…
Arrive
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Attitude
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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 new friend, a…
Boyfriend
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals.…
Betrayal
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a…
Becoming
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Adventure
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