Anais Nin quotes

Anais Nin

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anais Nin
Brainy See Things Them
"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."
Anais Nin
Friendship World New Born
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
Anais Nin
Inspirational Life Love Dreams You
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
Anais Nin
Say Role Writer Unable
"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."
Anais Nin
Love Death Never Know
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
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Love You Age Protect Does
"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
Anais Nin
Travel Us Forever Seek
"We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection."
Anais Nin
Life Moment Taste Twice
"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."
Anais Nin
Life Death People Life Is A
"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
Anais Nin
Great Fear Must Living
"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."
Anais Nin
Strength Me Man Courage
"People living deeply have no fear of death."
Anais Nin
Life Death People Fear Living
"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."
Anais Nin
Religion Political Grow System
"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."
Anais Nin
Love World Joy Will
"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."
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Imagination Reality Free Try Many
"Dreams are necessary to life."
Anais Nin
Life Dreams Necessary
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
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Life Strength Adversity Lose
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
Anais Nin
Women Man World Woman Wrong
"Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions."
Anais Nin
Love Reason Seek Because
"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."
Anais Nin
Art New Magic See
"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
Anais Nin
Death Suffering Chance Losing Living
"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked."
Anais Nin
Bird Me Morning Fire
"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."
Anais Nin
Truth Who Like Human
"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
Anais Nin
Love Only To Love Incapacity
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."
Anais Nin
Me Moment Ahead Always
"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."
Anais Nin
I Am Woman Right Human
"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."
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Precious Human Rare Contact Being
"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."
Anais Nin
Love Man You Feel
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
Anais Nin
Knowledge Always Mystery More
"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
Dreams Reality Action Dream Living
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."
Anais Nin
Life Always Beyond Personal
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
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Life Dreams Together Action
"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."
Anais Nin
Life Person Big Like
"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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Man Who Father Human
"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."
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Long Time Long Time Slavery Father
"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."
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Truth Universe Words Who
"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"
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Love Friendship Real Cannot
"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."
Anais Nin
Myself Poverty Way Fate
"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living."
Anais Nin
Ideas Writing Living Desk Come
"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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Art You Culture Writing Cry
"Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live."
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Effort Never Live Living
"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."
Anais Nin
You World Yourself Others
"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am."
Anais Nin
Pride Worry Talent
"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am."
Anais Nin
Pride Worry Talent
"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."
Anais Nin
Break Through Risk Bud
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anais Nin
Inspirational Life Motivational
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anais Nin
Inspirational Motivational Positive
"We see things the way we are, not the way they are."
Anais Nin
Way
"We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds."
Anais Nin
Feelings Musical Sound

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