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World Quotes by Anais Nin
- "We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."
- Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
- 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 artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection…
- Each friend represents a world in us.
- I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.
- The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
- Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.
- 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 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 have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world.…
- Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world…
- When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
- I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to,…
- There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into…
- 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 believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
- All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.
- I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world,…
- I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter…
- I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of…
- Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
- The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but…
- If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
- 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…
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