Anaïs Nin Quotes

• People living deeply have no fear of death.

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  Topics in Death, Fear, Life, Spirituality

• There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Change/Growth

• It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

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  Tags in Writers And Writing

• Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

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  Tags in Connections

• 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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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Tourist

• To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

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

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  Tags in Fought

• Violence is a symptom of impotence.

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  Tags in Impotence

• What I cannot love, I overlook.

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  Topics in Love

• 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.

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  Topics in Life

• I don’t tell the truth any more to those who can’t make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

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  Topics in Truth

• When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

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  Tags in Tolerable

Anaïs Nin (72)

Birth:	21st February, 1903
Death:	14th January, 1977
Nationality:	American, French
Profession:	Essayist, Journalist, Novelist, Writer

About

Anaïs Nin was born in Neuilly, France. She was an author born to Spanish-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. She published journals, novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.

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