Tao Te Ching
Anais Nin
1903 – 1977 CE
A writer since 11 years old and after sharing a bohemian lifestyle with Henry Miller in Paris while she was married to her first husband; she married her second husband while still married to the first. A radical feminist long before it became popular, her renown grew quickly during the 1960’s feminist movement. With a “degree in erotic lore,” she was the first well-known woman in the West to write erotica and is widely considered the best at it although she began writing it as a joke without intention to print. Close friend and in some cases lover to many of the main literary figures of her day including Henry Miller, John Steinbeck, and, Gore Vidal; Nin bravely looked deeper than the thin shell of politically correct, respectability, and status quo.
Lineages
Trickster Women of Wisdom
Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
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Quotes by Anais Nin (8 quotes)
“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.”
Chapters:
26. The Still Rule the Restless
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“"I tell so many lies I have to write them down and keep them in the lie box so I can keep them straight."”
Chapters:
20. Unconventional Mind
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“"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to blossom."”
Chapters:
36. The Small, Dark Light
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Chapters:
44. Fame and Fortune
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“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.”
Chapters:
81. Journey Without Goal
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“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
Chapters:
39. Oneness
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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Chapters:
76. The Soft and Flexible
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“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.”
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