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a5f4565	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. --D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, pg. 20		Anaïs Nin
fde2602	No privacy left. No manners.	books book-quotes	Anaïs Nin
6d28629	Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, seek the root of such feelings and then operate on that. Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts.	jealousy expression security emotions	Anaïs Nin
133dcd5	I get furious at stairways, furious at doors, at walls, furious at everyday life which interferes with the continuity of ecstasy.		Anaïs Nin
8056ba5	I have decided that if analysis is a hothouse, a hastening of wisdom and growth, nevertheless the life experience must be actually lived out and through, completely, in spite of it; everything that is lived out in the imagination is poison.		Anaïs Nin
615d7ef	He has made me lucid and sane, and I am suffering cruelly from the loss of my imaginary life.		Anaïs Nin
125c815	She is suspicious of words. She lives by her senses, by her intuition. We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. How are you going to tell about them?		Anaïs Nin
f1837c0	Perhaps behind our occasional hostility toward the artist and writer there may be a slight tinge of jealousy. The man or woman who for the sake of family life, children, takes up work he does not like, disciplines himself, sacrifices some fantasy he had once, to travel or to paint, or even possibly to write, may feel toward the artist and writer a jealousy of his adventurous life. The artist and the writer have generally paid the full price..		Anaïs Nin
5eee9c8	Anais Nin noted in her diary: "The same thing which makes Henry indestructible is what makes me indestructible: It is that at the core of us is a writer, not a human being."		Anaïs Nin
9964464	I guess I am disturbed only because so little strains through the meshes and I am thinking in such violent floods.		Anaïs Nin
f2f0ad2	Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.		Anaïs Nin
d74dac4	When one is pretending the entire body revolts.		Anaïs Nin
4fda28a	Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life.		Anaïs Nin
0b66f5a	Solitude may rust your words.		Anaïs Nin
7b91f04	Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.		Anaïs Nin
9ade855	Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.		Anaïs Nin
1d3f5e0	The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.		Anaïs Nin
3a24304	Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.		Anaïs Nin
369f840	My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.		Anaïs Nin
095c42a	Passion gives me moments of wholeness.		Anaïs Nin
20d4192	Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way.		Anaïs Nin
6693805	Love reduces the complexity of living.		Anaïs Nin
dd95818	The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.		Anaïs Nin
006dc58	To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.		Anaïs Nin
3f50ce0	People living deeply have no fear of death.		Anaïs Nin
6626c25	He was insane with anger. Or is all insanity anger?		Anaïs Nin
0b9c14c	You cannot save people, you can only love them.		Anaïs Nin
8ea1441	Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."		Anaïs Nin
630d1b5	He left me at my hotel at 3:00 AM murmuring: "You're marvelous."		Anaïs Nin
187b8a0	I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.		Anaïs Nin
ad29aa0	No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness .		Anaïs Nin
93d781e	In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.		Anaïs Nin
b6d1993	Everything but happiness is neurosis.		Anaïs Nin
05ed4e4	Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.		Anaïs Nin
85d4191	Ecstasy is the moment of exaltation from wholeness!		Anaïs Nin
f7b1c39	Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.		Anaïs Nin
d2f882c	I would say that compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.		Anaïs Nin
95dcc57	I am the one who has felt most deeply the stuttering of the tongue in its relation to thought.		Anaïs Nin
b420f72	The dream has to be translated into reality.		Anaïs Nin
51e1e37	The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.		Anaïs Nin
f693ba8	We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.		Anaïs Nin

a5f4565

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. --D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, pg. 20

Anaïs Nin

fde2602

No privacy left. No manners.

books book-quotes

Anaïs Nin

6d28629

Confront all the angry thoughts, feelings, the jealousies and condemnations, to find their cause, seek the root of such feelings and then operate on that. Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts.

jealousy expression security emotions

Anaïs Nin

133dcd5

I get furious at stairways, furious at doors, at walls, furious at everyday life which interferes with the continuity of ecstasy.

Anaïs Nin

8056ba5

I have decided that if analysis is a hothouse, a hastening of wisdom and growth, nevertheless the life experience must be actually lived out and through, completely, in spite of it; everything that is lived out in the imagination is poison.

Anaïs Nin

615d7ef

He has made me lucid and sane, and I am suffering cruelly from the loss of my imaginary life.

Anaïs Nin

125c815

She is suspicious of words. She lives by her senses, by her intuition. We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. How are you going to tell about them?

Anaïs Nin

f1837c0

Perhaps behind our occasional hostility toward the artist and writer there may be a slight tinge of jealousy. The man or woman who for the sake of family life, children, takes up work he does not like, disciplines himself, sacrifices some fantasy he had once, to travel or to paint, or even possibly to write, may feel toward the artist and writer a jealousy of his adventurous life. The artist and the writer have generally paid the full price..

Anaïs Nin

5eee9c8

Anais Nin noted in her diary: "The same thing which makes Henry indestructible is what makes me indestructible: It is that at the core of us is a writer, not a human being."