Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
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"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
Anaïs Nin
"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."
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"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
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"The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith."
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"I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again."
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"People living deeply have no fear of death."
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"But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again."
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"One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy."
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"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."
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"Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live."
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"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle."
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"life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat."
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"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."
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"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
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"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."
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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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"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."
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"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
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"All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished."
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"Dreams are necessary to life."
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