Anais Nin Quotes About Understanding
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Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.
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I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.
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Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.
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Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
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