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Anais Nin

  • Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.... Anais Nin {view}
  • I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. 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.... Anais Nin {view}
  • We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection... Anais Nin {view}
  • Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.... Anais Nin {view}
  • The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.... Anais Nin {view}
  • Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.... Anais Nin {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, 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, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death."... Anais Nin {view}
  • Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.... Anais Nin {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's 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 {view}
  • There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.... Anais Nin {view}
  • The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom.... Anais Nin {view}
  • Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a 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 from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.... Anais Nin {view}
  • 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.... Anais Nin {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.... Anais Nin {view}
  • What I cannot love, I overlook... Anais Nin {view}