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Anais Nin Quotes - Page 3

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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

Moving On, Pain, Swimming

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.

Love, Inspirational, Strength

With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.

Eye, Men, Flames

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

Confusion, Clear

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.

Mistake, Making Mistakes, Experiments

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

Violence, Symptoms, Impotence

You fall in love with people's minds.

Falling In Love, Fall, People

"Fictional character: Hugo Guiler". "Henry & June", www.imdb.com. 1990.

You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.

Love You, Reflection, Madness

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Marriage, Fairy Tale, Tales

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it

Inspirational, Positive, Gratitude

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

Life, Giving, Dies

"Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937". Book by Anaïs Nin, 1995.

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

Inspirational, Behaviour, Abnormal

it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Freedom, Helping Others, Helping

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

Self, Should

Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are

Way

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

Unity, Enough, Symbolic

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

Love, Wisdom, Understanding

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

Love, Writing, Heart

"Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Life, Inspiring, Death

"The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

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.

Love, Kissing, Two

We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.

Women, Self, Historical

Your eyes make me shy

Love, Crush, Eye

I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

Miracle, Anticipation, Walks

Anais Nin (1992). “La casa dell'incesto”, p.42, Feltrinelli Editore

I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.

Hate, Struggle, Sincerity

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