Anais Nin quotes

Love reduces the complexity of living.
Anais Nin

To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
Anais Nin

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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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the
surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
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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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I write emotional algebra.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then
don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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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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Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."
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To withhold from living is to die... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes
you.
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Everything but happiness is neurosis.
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
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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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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning
and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
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The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the
rest.
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My ideas usually come not at the desk writing but in the midst of living.
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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment with it, that
was the miracle.
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To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
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You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's
written in the stars.
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
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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.
Anais Nin

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