Anaïs Nin Quotes

• 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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  Topics in Friendship

• What I cannot love, I overlook.

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  Topics in Love

• [Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Forget

• Violence is a symptom of impotence.

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  Tags in Impotence

• 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

• It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human

• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Courage, Women

• 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

• I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Long

• How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expect, Women

• Good things happen to those who hustle.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

• Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Born

• Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Love

  Tags in Understanding, Reason

• The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Choice

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

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  Tags in Connections

• 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

• 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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  Topics in Failure, Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Change/Growth

• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Courage, Proportion

• 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 illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

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  Topics in Death, Love

• We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

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  Topics in Future, Life

  Tags in Now, Change/Growth, Diversity, Chaos, Maturity

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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