Anaïs Nin Quotes

• 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

• People living deeply have no fear of death.

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  Topics in Death, Fear, Life, Spirituality

• Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Dreams, Conscience

• The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Life, Spirituality, Truth

• When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Politics, Religion, Truth

  Tags in Change/Growth, Faith, Reason

• If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

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• 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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• Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

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  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Stems, Interdependence, Highest, Produces, Pass, Form, Into, Again, Dreams, Reality, Living

• Dreams are necessary to life.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Dreams, Necessary

• If you do not breathe through writing; if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write; our culture has no use for it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Culture, Breathe, Cry

• The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

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  Topics in Dream, Inspirational

  Tags in Now, Wonder

• The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

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  Topics in Beauty, Knowledge, Spirituality

  Tags in Wonder

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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