Quote by Anaïs Nin
When one is pretending the entire body revolts. - Anaïs Nin

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. – Anaïs Nin

Other quotes by Anaïs Nin

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

Category:
Miscellaneous
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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Writing
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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

Category:
Life
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Other Quotes from
Be Yourself
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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Be Yourself

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? – Fanny Brice

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Be Yourself

Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves…. Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine. – James Poland

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Be Yourself

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it. – Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954

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Be Yourself

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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. – Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

Category:
Attitude

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. – Anthony Burgess

Category:
Men

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production. – Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

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Creativity

The historian reports to us, not events themselves, but the impressions they have made on him. – Heinrich von Sybel

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History