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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.
The Early Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 2: 1920-1923
I have no brakes on... analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
The Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
I don�t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.
In chaos, there is fertility.
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
The Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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