Anaïs Nin - Image Quotes

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I had always believed in Andre Breton's freedom, to write as one thinks, in the order and disorder in which one feels in thinks, to follow sensations and absurd correlations of events and images, to trust to the new realms they lead one into. "The cult of the marvelous." Also the cult of the unconscious leadership, the cult of mystery, the evasion of false logic. The cult of the unconscious as proclaimed by Rimbaud. It is not madness. It is an effort to transcend the rigidities and the patterns made by the rational mind.

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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

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This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.

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The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

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The hallucinatory drugs only reveal the world of images we contain but do not teach us interpretation, illumination, or enlightenment.

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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

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I loved an image of him which did not exist. When he is away, this image begins to obsess me. It invades me, and I begin to believe in it again. It is destroyed each time I see him.

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One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self.... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide.... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.

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The best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.

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At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.

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