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The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source, it dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illnesses and wounds, it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings, but never a natural death. Every lover should be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love.
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For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.
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Although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
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Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.
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She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others.
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Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh... without destroying that moment.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth.
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We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
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When she did finally fall asleep it was the restless sleep of the night watchman continuously aware of danger and of the treacheries of time seeking to cheat her by permitting clocks to strike the passing hours when she was not awake to grasp their contents.
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The ghost of her potential father tormented her like a hunger for something which she knew had been invented or created solely by herself, but which she feared might never take human shape.
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Our love of each other is like one long shadow kissing without hope of reality.
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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
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The sap rising in the trees does not rise each year with greater strength, but life rises in me each year with greater strength, and can I endure it? The symphonic concerts of the birds do not get louder, but my cries of exultation, yes, and can others endure it?
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When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.
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There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.
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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
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I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.
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The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.
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He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. The fear of microbes played a very important part in his life.... For him the only danger came from the microbes which attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.
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I would say that compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
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Born:
February 21, 1903
Died:
January 14, 1977
(aged 73)
Bio:
Anaïs Nin was an author born to Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba but lived most of her life in the United States where she became an established author.
Known for:
Delta of Venus (1977)
The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1966)
Henry and June
Incest: From a Journal of Love
Little Birds
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