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Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.
Anais Nin
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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
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More quotes by Anais Nin
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.
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I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
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The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.
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Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
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Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin
I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.
Anais Nin
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
Anais Nin
If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
Anais Nin
We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.
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