Top 380 Anaïs Nin Quotes (2023 Update)
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201. “Our love lives because I live.”

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202. “Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.”

— Anaïs Nin

203. “We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.”

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204. “Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.”

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205. “The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man – the sense of wonder.”

— Anaïs Nin

206. “When I don’t write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.”

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207. “The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.”

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208. “No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.”

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209. “We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.”

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210. “I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.”

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211. “One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make – to part with one’s faith, one’s love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.”

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212. “I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.”

— Anaïs Nin

213. “The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.”

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214. “Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.”

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215. “I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.”

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216. “Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.”

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217. “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.”

— Anaïs Nin

218. “The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.”

— Anaïs Nin

219. “The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.”

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220. “You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.”

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221. “Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.”

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222. “Solitude may rust your words.”

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223. “My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.”

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224. “There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.”

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225. “I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and there come an end to the interest, and this never happens in a journal!”

— Anaïs Nin

226. “The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.”

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227. “Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.”

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228. “One may gain one truth at the expense of another.”

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229. “Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?”

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230. “It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.”

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231. “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.”

— Anaïs Nin

232. “What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.”

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233. “What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.”

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234. “I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.”

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235. “To love and to labor is the sum of living.”

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236. “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.”

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237. “Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.”

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238. “Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.”

— Anaïs Nin

239. “Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.”

— Anaïs Nin

240. “My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.”

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241. “The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.”

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242. “Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.”

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243. “I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.”

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244. “We are never trapped unless we choose to be.”

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245. “I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.”

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246. “Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.”

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247. “The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.”

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248. “To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.”

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249. “Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.”

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250. “Will you come down and kiss me good night?”

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