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21 " Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. "
― Anaïs Nin , Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
22 " Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. "
― Anaïs Nin
23 " There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work. "
24 " Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. "
25 " We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. "
26 " I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. "
27 " I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself. "
― Anaïs Nin , The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
28 " She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. "
29 " life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat. "
30 " The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle. "
31 " Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live. "
32 " When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. "
― Anaïs Nin , The Diary of Anaïs Nin Volume 4 1944-1947
33 " The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. "
34 " There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. "
― Anaïs Nin , The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 3: 1939-1944
35 " We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts. "
― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)
36 " One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy. "
37 " 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. "
38 " He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt. "
― Anaïs Nin , Delta of Venus
39 " There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned. "
40 " But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again. "