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Famous Anais Nin Quotes
“Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.”
“Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.”
“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”
“Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.”
“We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.”
“It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.”
“The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.”
“I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.”
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it”
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.”
“Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.”
“Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.”
“The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.”
“The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.”