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A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4) QUOTES

A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4) QUOTES

1 " 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)

2 " At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

3 " Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

4 " Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

5 " the cape held within its folds something of what she imagined was a quality possessed exclusively by man: some dash, some audacity, some swagger of freedom denied to woman "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

6 " Everything could undergo conversion except the artists. How can you convert disorganizers of past and present order, the chronic dissenters, those dispossessed of the present anyway, the atom bomb throwers of the mind, of the emotions, seeking to generate new forces and a new order of mind out of continuous upheavals? "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

7 " It was as if in captivity, her brilliant plumage were losing its brilliance. She felt the metamorphosis. She knew she was moulting. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

8 " She needed a confessor! Would she find it there, in the world of the artists? All over the world they had their meeting places, their affiliations, their rules of membership, their kingdoms, their chiefs, their secret channels of communication. They established common beliefs in certain painters, certain musicians, certain writers. They were the misplaced persons too, unwanted at home usually, or repudiated by their families. But they established new families, their own religions, their own doctors, their own communities. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

9 " This openness, which is closed again as soon as we face a partial relationship, the one who understands only one part of us, is the miraculous openess which takes place in whole love. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

10 " Believing in the danger which sprang from objects as well as people, which dress, which shoes, which coat demanded less of her panicked heart and body? For a costume was a challenge too, a discipline, a trap which once adopted could influence the actor. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

11 " The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

12 " I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

13 " At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

14 " She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mâché horse. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

15 " I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

16 " At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

17 " You haven't loved yet," he said. "You've only been trying to love; beginning to love. Trust alone is not love, illusion is not love, desire alone is not love. All these were paths leading you out of yourself, it is true, and so you thought they led to another, but you never reached the other. You were only on the way. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

18 " There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment. "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

19 " Will you come down and kiss me good night? "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)

20 " I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colors created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been able to reproduce. Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions give them? "

― Anaïs Nin , A Spy in the House of Love (Cities of the Interior, #4)