Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Anais Nin quotes, Anais Nin sayings, and Anais Nin proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
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 naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.Anais Nin
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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.Anais Nin
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.Anais Nin
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I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe.Anais Nin
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Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.Anais Nin
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.Anais Nin
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.Anais Nin
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.Anais Nin
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.Anais Nin
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.Anais Nin
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Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.Anais Nin
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.Anais Nin
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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.Anais Nin
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.Anais Nin
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Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.Anais Nin
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The cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.Anais Nin
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Adolescence is like cactus.Anais Nin
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Ecstasy is the moment of exaltation from wholeness!Anais Nin
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Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.Anais Nin
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.Anais Nin
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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is deathAnais Nin
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When one is pretending the entire body revolts.Anais Nin
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.Anais Nin
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People living deeply have no fear of death.Anais Nin
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.Anais Nin
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.Anais Nin
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.Anais Nin
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Good things come to those who hustle.Anais Nin
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Notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.Anais Nin