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Anais Nin Quotes - Page 4

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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

Believe, Healing, Revolution

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Life, Moving On, Death

"The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)" by Anais Nin, (p. 190), March 19, 1969.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Love, Inspirational, Dream

I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.

Believe, Fire, Being Myself

I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.

Blood, Voice, Ears

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

Self, Lenses, World

Write. Write until it stops hurting.

Hurt, Writing

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

Passion, Different Experiences, Becoming

"The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin" byEvelyn J. Hinz, (p. 40), 1971.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

Being Yourself, Acceptance, Unique

"Winter of Artifice". Book by Anais Nin, 1939.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

Dream, Sex, Laughter

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

Truth, Use, Telling The Truth

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

Suffering, Enchantment, Stories

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

Love, Acceptance, What Is Love

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Inspirational Life, Memorable, Writing

Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.

Strength, Sisterhood, Men

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.

Honesty, Bears, Ethics

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, November 1933.

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life, Risk, Bud

Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.

Perfection, Progress, Static

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Love, Pregnancy, Understanding

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

Form, Seems

We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.

Lonely, Writing, Journey

"Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Inspirational, Funny, Travel

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

Family, Maturity, Compassion

"The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 5 (1947-1955)". Book by Anais Nin, 1975.

The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.

Weakness, Obstacles

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

Gold, Ordinary, Alchemy

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