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e463d39
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Anais Nin |
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1f60dc1
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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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living
inspirational
anais-nin
no-fear
mermaids
sea
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Anais Nin |
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b3dadaf
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Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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escape
freedom
reality
intoxication
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Anaïs Nin |
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da3fed4
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I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
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woman
feminism
women-s-strenth
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Anaïs Nin |
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289cbd2
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book... or you take a trip... and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, bor..
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nin
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Anaïs Nin |
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d25a1a2
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, an..
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men
passion
women
joy
love
fulfillment
ecstasy
sensuality
sexuality
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Anaïs Nin |
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647c9de
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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travel
inspirational
seekers
quest
journey
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anaïs nin |
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a1e6246
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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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understanding
inspirational
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Anaïs Nin |
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38533dc
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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inspirational
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Anais Nin |
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6512cfe
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There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
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inspirational
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Anaïs Nin |
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9b549f5
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Anaïs Nin |
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2c0b9ae
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Question: I am interested in so many things, and I have a terrible fear because my mother keeps telling me that I'm just going to be exploring the rest of my life and never get anything done. But I find it really hard to set my ways and say, "Well, do I want to do this, or should I try to exploit that, or should I escape and completely do one thing?"
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Anais Nin |
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d162a57
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
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inspirational
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Anais Nin |
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7f0ccfd
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What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the che..
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responsibility
courage
destiny
empowerment
self-improvement
self-control
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Anais Nin |
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2de24aa
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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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inspirational
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ANAIS NIN |
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c750923
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Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.
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pain
reality
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Anaïs Nin |
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c966ab1
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Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I also hate Dutch paintings, penis-sucking, parties, and cold rainy weather. But I am much more preoccupied with loving.
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hatred
hate
love
penis-sucking
oral-sex
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Anaïs Nin |
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deced4d
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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inspirational
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anaïs nin |
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996524f
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I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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inspirational
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Anaïs Nin |
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2e48df9
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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inspirational
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Anaïs Nin |
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5998039
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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. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, pru..
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infinite
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Anaïs Nin |
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f710272
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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passion
love
sexuality
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Anaïs Nin |
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8360156
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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
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passion
romance
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Anaïs Nin |
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f1db038
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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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living
strength
life
experience
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Anaïs Nin |
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4e6f81b
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To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
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Anaïs Nin |
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0d39655
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Do you know what I would answer to someone who asked me for a description of myself, in a hurry? This: ?? !! For indeed my life is a perpetual question mark--my thirst for books, my observations of people, all tend to satisfy a great, overwhelming desire to know, to understand, to find an answer to a million questions. And gradually the answers are revealed, many things are explained, and above all, many things are given names and described..
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Anaïs Nin |
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08d69c6
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Anais Nin |
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eb6ebaa
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I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Anaïs Nin |
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2dbdb2c
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I want to make my own discoveries.......penetrate the evil which attracts me
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Anais Nin |
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7d45fad
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When does real love begin? At first it was a fire, eclipses, short circuits, lightning and fireworks; the incense, hammocks, drugs, wines, perfumes; then spasm and honey, fever, fatigue, warmth, currents of liquid fire, feast and orgies; then dreams, visions, candlelight, flowers, pictures; then images out of the past, fairy tales, stories, then pages out of a book, a poem; then laughter, then chastity. At what moment does the knife wound ..
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Anaïs Nin |
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0a0a392
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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Anaïs Nin |
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2d44a23
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In my childhood diary I wrote: "I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much."
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Anaïs Nin |
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ec69311
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
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politics
religion
inspirational
critical-thinking
dogma
freedom-of-thought
independent-thought
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Anaïs Nin |
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3e095ee
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life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.
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inspirational
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anaïs nin |
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ce7b8e9
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I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
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Anais Nin |
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3b11b70
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I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe.
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love
isolation
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Anaïs Nin |
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86766c8
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I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me."
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Anaïs Nin |
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9d49e5b
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
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Anaïs Nin |
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6798932
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I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.
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sex
erotica
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Anaïs Nin |
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a444ec9
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
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Anaïs Nin |
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a7e11d2
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I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.
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Anaïs Nin |
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bdc4d9b
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Before, as soon as I came home from all sorts of places I would sit down and write in my journal. Now I want to write you, talk with you... I love when you say all that happens is good, it is good. I say all that happens is wonderful. For me it is all symphonic, and I am so aroused by living - god, Henry, in you alone I have found the same swelling of enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness... Before, I almost used to t..
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passion
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Anaïs Nin |
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86c36ad
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I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
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Anaïs Nin |
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97e63eb
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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passion
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Anaïs Nin |