Best Anais Nin Qoutes
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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
Already Bitten
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and…
All
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When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical…
Alone
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They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image…
Courted
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Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash…
Absolutely
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The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
Alibi
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The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but…
Endless
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness
Gives
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My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of…
All
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If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
Child
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Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal…
Agitated
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I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I…
Abhorrent
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
Form
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He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
Humiliating
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I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
Afraid
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How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich…
Birth
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I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a…
Destroy
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I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless.…
According
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She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a…
Asleep
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Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives…
Alarm
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A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
Afraid
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I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create…
Alone
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The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were…
All
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I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
Angel
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I'm sick of my own romanticism!
Inspirational
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