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Action(s)
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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.
-Anais Nin
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
-Anais Nin
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Belief
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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life. Les Jeux.
-Anais Nin, The Diary of Ana, 1980
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Bravery
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anais Nin
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Creation
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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.
-Anais Nin
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Dreams
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Dreams are necessary to life.
-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, The Diaries of Ana
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Father
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
-Anais Nin
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Friends
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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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Growth
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
-Anais Nin, The Diaries of Ana
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Individuality
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Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.
-Anais Nin, The Novel of the Future (New York: Collier Books), 1970
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Joy, Excitement
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked
-Anais Nin
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Life
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If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.
-Anais Nin, The Novel of the Future
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Love
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
-Anais Nin
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
-Anais Nin, Winter of Artifice, 1945
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Perception
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We don't see things as they are.
We see them as we are.
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Risk
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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.
-Anais Nin
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I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
-Anais Nin
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Sex
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Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
-Anais Nin
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Truth
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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.
-Anais Nin
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Women
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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
-Anais Nin
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Books by and about Anais Nin