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“I want my eroticism mixed with love. And deep love one does not often experience.”
Anais Nin
“Fiction teaches us that the sorrows of living are meaningful. Fiction restores the meaning. The experience which is being lived day by day may seem futile, destructive because the vision of totality is lacking. In the novel it acquires a pattern. It is fiction. It reaches beyond pain to the pattern of meaningfulness which consoles us for all the agonies, and uncovers elevations.”
Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Volume Five 1947-1955
Anaïs Nin, from a novel titled "A Spy in the House of Love," published in 1954
life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -Anais Nin
“I felt him in everything. And what I felt was too deep.”
— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947
Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955
[Text ID: I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.]
Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1929, featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. IV, 1927-1931
oh to be an esoteric female diarist, spending her days yearning and feeling all and nothing
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