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We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art–we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
– Anas Nin

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  1. But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom… – Anas Nin
  2. In this instant of danger they realized they were each other’s reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being. – Anas Nin
  3. His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt? – Anas Nin
  4. The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one’s whole existence. – Anas Nin
  5. I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled. – Anas Nin
  6. We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again … . – Walt Disney Company
  7. We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we’re wrong. Someone we trust. – Rachel Cohn
  8. The ultimate purpose of psychology is to release from psychology. – Shai Tubali
  9. You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength. – Anas Nin
  10. Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel. – Anas Nin
  11. No privacy left. No manners. – Anas Nin
  12. What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you? – Anas Nin
  13. He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals. – Anas Nin
  14. And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anas Nin
  15. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anas Nin
  16. Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. – Anas Nin
  17. How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself? – Anas Nin
  18. I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me. – Anas Nin
  19. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. – Anas Nin
  20. He was jealous of her future, and she of his past. – Anas Nin
  21. I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength. – Anas Nin
  22. Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy. – Anas Nin
  23. The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself. – Anas Nin
  24. I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them. – Anas Nin
  25. …then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. – Anas Nin
  26. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anas Nin
  27. I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me. – Anas Nin
  28. We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss. – Anas Nin
  29. We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss. – Anas Nin
  30. We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss. – Anas Nin
  31. We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. – Anas Nin
  32. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. – Anas Nin
  33. We see the world not as it is, but as we are. – Anas Nin
  34. I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all. – Anas Nin
  35. Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me. – Anas Nin
  36. Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me. – Anas Nin
  37. Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman. – Anas Nin
  38. Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them. – Anas Nin
  39. We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks. – Anas Nin
  40. The relief of opening one’s hand and letting go was immense. But soon after, I tightened again. A desire for revenge, a strange revenge. – Anas Nin

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