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Anais Nin Inspirational Quotes (476)

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Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
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For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.
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the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
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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 left for them but to bark.
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atrophy of feeling creates criminals.
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Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
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If you can't create, you destroy.
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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
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Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.
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A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.
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Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
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perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
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When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.
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The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
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When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
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... only love begets love.
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It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
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I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.
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