Top 36 Best Anais Nin Quotes

#1. I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

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#2. This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

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#3. We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.

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#4. I never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think pornography has added to our sensual life.

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#5. I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

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#6. Dreams are essential to life.

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#7. 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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#8. My diary seems to keep me whole.

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#9. The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

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#10. When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

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#11. For the first time, in Golconda, she had practiced Larry's choice of withdrawing if the people were not of quality. Of preferring solitude to the effort of pretending he was interested in them.

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#12. There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection.

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#13. The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.

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#14. I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

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#15. The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

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#16. [Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

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

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#18. His theatre was the clouds, where no spectacle repeated itself. On land he was a foreigner. Land for him was stasis, and it pulled him into immobility, which was his image of death.
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#19. Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

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#20. I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

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#21. To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.

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#22. Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table where I wait for him, or opens the gate to our house, the sight of him is sufficient to exult me. No letter from anyone, even in praise of my book, can stir me as much as a note from him.

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#23. I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.

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#24. I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae ... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.

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#25. We're journeying constantly, but there is always a machine and books, and your body is always close to me and the look in your eyes never changes. People are saying we will be miserable, we will regret, but we are happy, we are laughing always, we are singing. We are talking Spanish and French and

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#26. At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

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#27. [On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

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#28. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.

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#29. A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in me with eternal resonance, a voice rusty with the sound of curses and the hoarse cries that issue from the delta in the last paroxysm of orgasm.

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#30. Now the evening is beginning and I will discover a human being to court or to be courted by, an adventure with caprice and desire, and while gambling I might find love.

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#31. Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

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#32. What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?

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#33. It was this that frightened me
the sense that behind the grande amoureuse lay concealed a little bourgeoise who wanted security in love.

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#34. The best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.

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#35. We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.

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#36. Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!

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