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First Quotes by Anais Nin
- The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million…
- The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
- It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had…
- At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis,…
- At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it…
- At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.
- I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first…
- You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you…
- We write to taste life twice, first in the moment and second in retrospect
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