Best Anais Nin Wisdom
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All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.
All
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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
Addiction
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Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it,…
Act
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Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people…
Afraid
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
Inspirational
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I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me
Attracts
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There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone…
Alone
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All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
All
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Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves…
Actively
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Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
Abnormal
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I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world,…
Absolute
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
Depth
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and…
Acceptance
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I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I…
Been
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are…
Absolutely
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I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
Aware
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the…
Art
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
All
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I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
Absorb
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I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter…
Adjust
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be…
Acceptance
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When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
Acceptance
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
Becomes
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His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
Angel
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Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a…
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