Anaisnin Quotes

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July 31, 2018 9:03pm UTC

“ I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me. This is a little drunken... I am saying to myself here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere. I remember your saying – you could fool me, I wouldn't know it – when I walk along the boulevards and think of that. I can't fool you – and yet I would like to. I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal – it's not in me. I love women, or life, too much – which it is, I don't know. But laugh, I love to hear you laugh. You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance – no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you – even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me. ”

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seafoam*
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December 22, 2016 10:32pm UTC

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I only feel close to people who arouse my energy, who make enormous demands of me, who are capable of enriching me with experience, pain, people who do not doubt my courage, or my toughness. People who do not believe me naive or innocent, but who challenge my keenest wisdom, who have the courage to treat me like a woman in spite of the fact that they are aware of my vulnerability.
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seafoam*
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December 21, 2016 5:30pm UTC

I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.

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seafoam*
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December 21, 2016 5:26pm UTC

What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

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December 21, 2016 5:09pm UTC

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Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.
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(( Henry and June: From ''A Journal of Love'' ))

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seafoam*
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December 21, 2016 4:49pm UTC

“I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”

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seafoam*
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December 21, 2016 4:24pm UTC

I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.

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seafoam*
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December 21, 2016 4:16pm UTC

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
— Anaïs Nin

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seafoam*
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December 21, 2016 3:37pm UTC

Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. Woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which she is bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love a taking of man within her, an act of birth and rebirth, of child rearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to be. But for woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment man rests inside of her.
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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seafoam*
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December 21, 2016 3:21pm UTC

I was born without a skin. I dreamed once that I stood naked in a garden and that it was carefully and neatly peeled, like a fruit. Not an inch of skin left on my body. It was all gently pulled off, all of it, and then I was told to walk, to live, to run. I walked slowly at first, and the garden was very soft, and I felt the softness of the garden so acutely, not on the surface of my body, but all through it, the soft warm air and the perfumes penetrated me like needles through every open bleeding pore. All the pores open and breathing the softness, the warmth, and the smells. The whole body invaded, penetrated, responding, every tiny cell and pore active and breathing and trembling and enjoying. I shrieked with pain. I ran. And as I ran the wind lashed me, and then the voices of people like whips on me. Being touched! Do you know what it is to be touched by a human being!
— Anaïs Nin, House of Incest

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seafoam*
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September 17, 2016 5:16pm UTC

What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

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seafoam*
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September 16, 2016 3:51pm UTC

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

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seafoam*
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August 23, 2016 5:52pm UTC

He was now in that state of fire that she loved.
She wanted to be burnt.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
August 19, 2016 11:19am UTC

I am lonely, yet
not everybody
will do. I don’t
know why,
some people
fill the gaps
and others
emphasize my
loneliness.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
June 6, 2015 8:27pm UTC

“ It is like a forest fire, to be with him. New places of my body are aroused and burnt. He is incendiary. I leave him in an unquenchable fever. ”
( Anaïs Nin )
Amenah's format

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Onism*
posted a quote
May 27, 2013 3:00pm UTC

"We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are"

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gilded
posted a quote
March 26, 2013 3:46pm UTC

Please keep all credit in the codes/parts of codes you'd like to use. [] (c) Gilded
I often see how you
sob
over what you destroy

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