Anais Nin Quotes (42 quotes)

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„The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.“
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„There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.“
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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.“
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„What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?“
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„When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.“
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„I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.“
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„The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.“
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„Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.“
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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.“
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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.“
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„It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.“
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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.“
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„Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.“
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„I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.“
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„There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.“
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„Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.“
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„Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.“
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„The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.“
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„The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.“
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„The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.“
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Anais Nin
Author born: February 21, 1903
Author died: January 14, 1977
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Author

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