Quotes by Anais Nin
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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 is born.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me nave or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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