August 2010
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July 2010
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“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for,...”
– Anaïs Nin (via misanthropicknave)
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“I found a perfection in you. And that perfection which is yours can’t be...”
– Letter from Henry Miller to Anaïs Nin
December 17, 1934
(via pocketbookreport)
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“I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a...”
– Anaïs Nin (via chelseahoward)
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“As I listened to Anaïs talk — for it was understood that she did most of the...”
– Anatole Broyard on Anaïs Nin and Sheri Donatti, Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir (via westernsalvage)
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“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....”
– Anaïs Nin (via pavkah)
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“I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her...”
– Anaïs Nin (via didine)
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“To be fully alive is to live unconsciously and instinctively in all directions....”
– Anaïs Nin (via psychedelicbreakfast)
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“I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world;...”
– Anaïs Nin (via misplacedjoanofarc)
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“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
– Anaïs Nin (via lunetlautre)
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“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment with...”
– Anaïs Nin (via mayneachaki)
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“Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.”
– Anaïs Nin (via littlemonstersinmyhead)
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“I have not been unaware of the political drama going on, but I have not taken...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my...”
– Anaïs Nin (via ninaisms)
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“The diary was once a disease. I do not take it up now for the same reasons....”
– Anaïs Nin
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“What I like best about myself…is my audacity, my courage. The ways I have...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s...”
– Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love
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“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”
– Anaïs Nin (via ninaisms)
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“No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men’s greatness.”
– Anaïs Nin
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“Oh, God, I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.”
– Anaïs Nin
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“Someday I’ll be locked up for love insanity. ‘She loved too...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1934-1939
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“I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I...”
– Anaïs Nin, Under A Glass Bell (via everwhite)
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“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1934-1939
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“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.”
– Anaïs Nin, Henry and June
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“There is a danger, if one doesn’t write habitually, that one will lose the...”
– Anaïs Nin (via museelemuse)
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“From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge...”
– Anaïs Nin (via persiannathalie)
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“We also write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and...”
– Anaïs Nin (via maybeneha)
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“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble...”
– Anaïs Nin (via notapplegreen)
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“She smiled at a man’s great need to build cities when it was so much harder to...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart (via yellowcrayon)
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“When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they...”
– Anaïs Nin (via toquote)
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“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
– Anaïs Nin
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“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
– Anaïs Nin
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“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
– Anaïs Nin
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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end...”
– Anaïs Nin, Under A Glass Bell
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“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we...”
– Anaïs Nin (via stonerchaarm)
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