Anaïs Nin on Truth
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Anaïs Nin, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Anaïs Nin, entry #223348: "When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with."
Attributed to Anaïs Nin, entry #241254: "The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others."
6 Quotes by Anaïs Nin on Truth
"When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with."
"The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others."
"We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream."
"The dream has to be translated into reality."
"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."
"For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated."