All ANAIS NIN Quotes about “Feelings”

“There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.”
“I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.”
“..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.”
“She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.”
“[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.”
“We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.”
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.”

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