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Moment Quotes by Anais Nin
- Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
- In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place…
- The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not…
- The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
- We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
- In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place…
- I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try…
- 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…
- For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you…
- You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be…
- There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all…
- I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and…
- Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say…
- I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am not trying to…
- I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It…
- We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.
- We write to taste life twice, first in the moment and second in retrospect
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