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Such 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…
- 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 am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a…
- Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne,…
- His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
- Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal…
- 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…
- We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That…
- 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…
- Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing…
- I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to…
- 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 want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake…
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- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough