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Anais Nin Quotes (133 quotes)

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
―Anais Nin

“It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.”
―Anais Nin

“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
―Anais Nin

“Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.”
―Anais Nin

Source/Notes:
As quoted in A Woman's Journal : A Blank Book with Quotes by Women (2002) by Running Press Staff, p. 1932

“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
―Anais Nin

“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
―Anais Nin

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
―Anais Nin

Source/Notes:
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939) - Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.”
―Anais Nin

“The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.”
―Anais Nin

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
―Anais Nin

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
―Anais Nin

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
―Anais Nin

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Anais Nin

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Anais Nin

Born: February 21, 1903

Died: January 14, 1977 (aged 73)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Author

Bio: Anaïs Nin was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.

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