Anaïs Nin Quotes

• I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

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  Topics in Fear, Inspirational

  Tags in Depths, Living

• And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painful

• I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps but other people emphasize my loneliness.

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  Tags in People, Lonely, Other

• You cannot save people, you can only love them.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in People

• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to bloom.

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  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Bloom

• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Soul

  Tags in Forever, Travel

• The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Abnormality, Incapacity

• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Easy, Find, Happiness

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

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  Tags in Tolerable

• There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Successive

• I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Despair

• There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Despair

• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Inspirational, Risk

• 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

• 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.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Faith

• To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one’s mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reflect

• Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rejection

• When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Body

• She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Reflection

• 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.

  Anaïs Nin

  Topics in Life

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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