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Out Quotes by Anais Nin
- No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted…
- If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture…
- Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
- I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a…
- 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…
- To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
- He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down…
- 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…
- 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…
- The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the…
- 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…
- She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening…
- The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you…
- The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes…
- The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads…
- This morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the…
- You live out the confusions until they become clear.
- One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's…
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