All Anais Nin Quotes
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
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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 naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin
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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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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais Nin
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin
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