Tag: Anais Nin
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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
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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Anais Nin
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin
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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
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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