Anaïs Nin - Life Quotes

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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

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

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

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This abdiction of life demanded of the artist is to be achieved only relatively. Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

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Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

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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. To seek a total unity is wrong. To give as much meaning to one's life as possible is right to me.

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