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Anais Nin Quotes - Page 18

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The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all,

The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million objects of it, situations, atmospheres, and variations. We have, first of all, to dispense with guilt concerning its expansion, then remain open to it's surprises, varied expressions, and mingle it with dreams, fantasies, and emotion for it to attain its highest potency.

Dream, Lying, Expression

The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent reaction, contradiction, and teasing, the refusal to answer questions but the love of putting them, and all the strong spices of human relationship which bore a relation to black pepper, paprika, soybean sauce, ketchup and red peppers.

Strong, Cooking, Black

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

New York, Cities, Jazz

I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

Dream, Reality, World Love

I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.

Crush, Hurt, June

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

House, And Love, Turns

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

Music, Self, Expression

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.

New York, Two, Paris

Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

Dancer, Ballet, Vehemence

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.

Joy, Solitude, Dreamer

"Children of the Albatross". Book by Anais Nin, 1947.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

Rushing, Joy, Moments

I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

Husband, Father, Believe

To love and to labor is the sum of living.

Labor

Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.

Indirect, Womanly, Delicate

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

Suicide, Sacrifice, Triumph

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

Abnormal, Reassurance, Despise

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.

Beautiful, Men, Firsts

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.

Anxiety, Killers, Drowning

I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.

Dream, Unique, Bird

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

Tragedy, Trying, Mystery

"Under a Glass Bell". Book by Anais Nin, 1944.

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

Tourists, World

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

Art, Analysis, Evolution

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

Monsters, Transformation, Creation

If you can't create, you destroy.

Creativity, Destruction, Ifs

I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.

Believe, Night, Evil

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