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Doe Quotes by Anais Nin
- He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
- "We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."
- The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling,…
- Ordinary life does not interest me.
- Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
- Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.
- Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.
- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- 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…
- The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want…
- I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together.…
- Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
- One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities.…
- The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all…
- Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver. And one thinks…
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- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi