Anais Nin on explanation
Anais Nin100 quotes“Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
Anais NinAnais Nin Your eyes make me shy.
Anais NinAnais Nin Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
Anais NinAnais Nin Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
Anais NinAnais Nin I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
Anais NinAnais Nin When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais NinAnais Nin 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.
Anais NinAnais Nin Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais NinAnais Nin I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.
Anais NinAnais Nin Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais NinAnais Nin I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Anais NinAnais Nin Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais NinAnais Nin Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Anais NinAnais Nin Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
Anais NinAnais Nin I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
Anais NinAnais Nin Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Feelings you could never explain. That’s what poetry is.
Celine ZabadCeline Zabad How can I possibly explain that I was just too afraid to love you how can I possibly explain that I still do?
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Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig Wittgenstein You don’t have to explain yourself to someone who has never taken time to get to know you.
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