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Experience Quotes by Anais Nin
- You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an…
- The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
- Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
- If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or…
- I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
- 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…
- she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
- I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more…
- Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then…
- 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…
- There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one…
- If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.
- It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday and the dread of…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila