Best Anais Nin Thoughts
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Desk
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Cannot Love
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Effort
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Expansion
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to,…
Cannot Live
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible…
Act
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child…
Absence
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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual…
All
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Beautiful
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Heart
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I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
Analysis
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into…
Bewildered
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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the…
Delayed
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Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend…
Belt
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a…
Absence
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From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You…
Anger
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The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath…
Blinding
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a…
Darling
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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…
Action
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The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent…
All
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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses…
Body
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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
Believe
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Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
Decline
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Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne,…
Among
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What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and…
Action
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