Quotes by Anais Nin

Anais Nin

Anais Nin

French-born American Novelist, Dancer

Lived from: 1903 - 1977

Category: Artists | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 21 february 1903 Died: 14 january 1977

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  • It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. 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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  • It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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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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  • Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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  • Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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  • Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's 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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  • 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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  • People living deeply have no fear of death.
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  • The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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  • 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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  • The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
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  • The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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  • The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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  • The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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  • The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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  • The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
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  • There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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  • 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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  • Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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  • Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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