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Say Quotes by Anais Nin
- I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no…
- The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing…
- I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
- At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs Anaïs Anaïs. You just say…
- The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
- A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could…
- 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…
- Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another…
- If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one…
- 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 can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came…
- I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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