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Anais Nin Quotes - Page 7

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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Love, Heartbreak, Dream

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

Wall, Giving, Sensual

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

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

People, Different, Different Peoples

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

Airports, Rehearsal, Separation

Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.

Inhumanity, Hospitals

The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.

Sacrifice, Men, Other Worlds

Jazz is the music of the body.

Body, Jazz, Jazz Music

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

Business, Monsters, Politics

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

Art, Self, Order

"Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations" by Sy Safransky, (p. 137), 1990.

I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .

Wind, Leafs, Leaves In The Wind

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

Leadership, World

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.

People, Independence, Needs

I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

Sisterhood, Want, Empowering Women

It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

Ocean, Eye, Order

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?

Moving

When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.

Eye, Hands, Feet

Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

Angel, Two, Sinister

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Inspirational, Life, Break Up

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. 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. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

Illumination, Space, Tree

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

Moon, Sixteen, Firsts

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Death, Sister In Law, Dying

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

Sister In Law, Giving, Negativity

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

Travel, Blessed, Passion

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.

Self, Two, Curiosity

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