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Anais Nin Quotes - Page 8

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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

Addiction, Drug, Doe

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

Play, Judging, Roles

I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

Falling In Love, Hate, Sleep

The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.

Passion, Personality, Moments

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

Visionaries, Use, Decline

The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

Progress, Compass, Encyclopedia

The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.

Depressing, Tired, Men

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

Hate, Heart, Independent

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

History, Prejudice, Blindness

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

America, Existence, Humiliating

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.

Sex, Heart, Together

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

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.

Life, Moving, Passion

All unlived emotions turn to inanity.

Emotion, Turns

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

Hate, Passion, Understanding

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

Mean, Self, Self Knowledge

I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naive faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.

Beautiful, Men, People

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

Inspirational, Madness, Creation

"Fire". Diary entries, October 18, 1936.

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

Snakes, Knowing, Battle

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

Perfection, Forgiving, Innocence

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

Inspirational, War, Chance

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

Needs, Life Is

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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.

Inspirational, Life, Book

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1, 1931-1934.

I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’

Dream, World, May

It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

Way, Easy

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

Feelings, Stronger, Reason

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