In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays Quotes

“We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

“Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

“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.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

“There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

“We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

“What unites us universally is our emotions, our feelings in the face of experience, and not necessarily the actual experiences themselves.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

“We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art— we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

“Group thinking does not give strength. It weakens the will. Majority thinking is oppressive because it inhibits individual growth and seeks a formula for all. Individual growth makes communal living of higher quality.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

“There is no liberation of one group at the expense of another. Liberation can only come totally and in unison.”
― Anaïs Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays