"No wonder I watch his life with a realization that my life will never resemble his, for mine is slowed up by thought."
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— Anaïs Nin
"June, you have destroyed reality. Your lies are not lies to you; they are conditions you want to live out."
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— Anaïs Nin
"There are a lot of instincts that should not be lived out because they are decayed and putrid."
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— Anaïs Nin
"The love between women is a refuge and an escape into harmony. In the love between man and woman there is resistance and conflict. Two women do not judge each other, brutalize each other, or find anything to ridicule. They surrender to sentimentality, mutual understanding, romanticism. Such love is death, i’ll admit."
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— Anaïs Nin
"We have yielded in spite of our individualism, our hatred of intimacy. We have absorbed our egocentric selves into our love. Our love is our ego."
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— Anaïs Nin
"We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. [ ] ..You are like me, wishing for a perfect moment, but nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way."
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— Anaïs Nin
"Our fears of displeasing each other, of disappointing each other were the same."
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— Anaïs Nin
"Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver."
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— Anaïs Nin
"Men need other things besides a sexual recipient. They have to be soothed, lulled, understood, helped, encouraged, and listened to."
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— Anaïs Nin
"Henry has imagination, an animal feeling for life, the greatest power of expression, and the truest genius I have ever known. “Our age has need of violence,” he writes. And he is violence."
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— Anaïs Nin
"When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other’s arms, lulled by our love, by tenderness - sensuality in which the whole being can participate."
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— Anaïs Nin
"His novel conceals a few of his own feelings. How do I know? They are not consistent with the story, not quite. They are there because they are natural to him."
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— Anaïs Nin
"It amuses him, my seriousness. He says, “perhaps you are the kind of woman who doesn’t hurt a man."
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— Anaïs Nin
