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Quotes from Diary entries — Anaïs Nin

1903–1977 France

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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

Diary entries (1914)

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Diary entries (1914)

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

Diary entries (1914)

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

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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.

Diary entries (1914)

All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

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I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

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This abdiction of life demanded of the artist is to be achieved only relatively. Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

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No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness .

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Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."

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You cannot save people, you can only love them.

Diary entries (1914)

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Diary entries (1914)

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

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I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

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The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.

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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

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For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.

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Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way.

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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

Diary entries (1914)

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.

Diary entries (1914)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anaïs Nin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.