Anais Nin Quotes
Anais Nin was a French-Cuban author and diarist who is best known for her novels and erotic stories. She has been called “a passionate woman, astute observer, and sensual writer.” Nin’s quotations are often poignant and thought-provoking. They offer insight into the human experience and serve as reminders to live life fully and authentically. Here are some of the best quotes from Anais Nin that will inspire you to live passionately and fearlessly.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
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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.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.
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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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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.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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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.
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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.
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