Memorable Quotes and quotations from Anais NinAnais Nin US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 - 1977)Anais Nin - - When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. Anais Nin - - Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. Anais Nin - - 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. Anais Nin - - 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. Anais Nin - - 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 - - And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin - "Winter of Artifice" - 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. Anais Nin - - The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. Anais Nin - House of Incest - I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self. Anais Nin - - If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. Anais Nin - - 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. Anais Nin - - I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles. Anais Nin - - There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions. Anais Nin - - Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. |
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