The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating.” — Anaïs Nin Life Copy Share Image
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. — Anais Nin Desire Copy Share Image
There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not… — Anais Nin Books Copy Share Image
They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to… — Anais Nin Faces Copy Share Image
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.” — Anaïs Nin Dream Copy Share Image
Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty… — Anais Nin Fullness Copy Share Image
I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to… — Anaïs Nin Self help Copy Share Image
I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal… — Anais Nin Adventure Copy Share Image
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish… — Anais Nin Death Copy Share Image
Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently… — Anais Nin Body Copy Share Image
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just… — Anais Nin Body Copy Share Image
She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two… — Anais Nin Desire Copy Share Image
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to… — Anais Nin Cycles Copy Share Image
“Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to… — Anaïs Nin Books Copy Share Image
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am… — Anais Nin Absence Copy Share Image
“Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself… — Anaïs Nin Desire Copy Share Image
“Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I… — Anaïs Nin Blind faith Copy Share Image
“Am I pushing or dying? the light up there, the immense round blazing white light is drinking me. It drinks me slowly,… — Anaïs Nin Darkness Copy Share Image
“The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two… — Anaïs Nin Adultery Copy Share Image
“The sea-lentils tied to giant serpentine string beans, sea-liquor brine, sea-lyme grass, sea-moss, sea-cucumbers. He never knew the sea had such a… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Before, as soon as I came home from all sorts of places I would sit down and write in my journal. Now… — Anaïs Nin Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on… — Anais Nin Asphyxiation Copy Share Image
“…For love it is never the same. What goes on inside is never the same just like this music which changes every… — Anaïs Nin Contrasts Copy Share Image
The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world. — Anais Nin Identity Copy Share Image
You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination. — Anais Nin Demand Copy Share Image
“I want eroticism mixed with love, and deep love one does not experience often.” — Anaïs Nin Deep love Copy Share Image
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, & you believe you are living. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
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