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Anais Nin Inspirational Quotes (476)

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Adolescence is like cactus.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
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Each friend represents a world in us.
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Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
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I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
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The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
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I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
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I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
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Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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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 faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
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