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Famous Anais Nin Quotes
“Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.”
“My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.”
“The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.”
“The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.”
“Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.”
“There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.”
“When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.”
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.”
“notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.”
“jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.”
“New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.”