The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image. — Anais Nin Artist Copy Share Image
I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly. — Anais Nin Leader Copy Share Image
I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them. — Anais Nin Inspirational Copy Share Image
I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything. — Anais Nin Creative Copy Share Image
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. — Anais Nin Backstabbing Copy Share Image
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not… — Anaïs Nin Actions Copy Share Image
“I awoke at dawn, thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colors created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been… — Anaïs Nin Artist Copy Share Image
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And… — Anais Nin Barriers Copy Share Image
I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men… — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my… — Anais Nin Bears Copy Share Image
the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it.… — Anais Nin Artist Copy Share Image
“This openness, which is closed again as soon as we face a partial relationship, the one who understands only one part of… — Anaïs Nin Love Copy Share Image
I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“A writer, who was a celebrity in Paris, had entered her shop one day. He was not looking for a hat. He… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“The old concept of chronological, orderly, symmetrical development of character died when it was discovered that the unconscious motivations are entirely at… — Anaïs Nin Character Copy Share Image
“Like the Baron, Mathilde developed a formula for acting out life as a series of roles—that is, by saying to herself in… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am… — Anais Nin June Copy Share Image
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in… — Anais Nin Anger Copy Share Image
“They walked in silence through the little streets of Chinatown. Women from all over the world smiled at them from open windows,… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other, if only I… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry. — Anais Nin Eroticism Copy Share Image
He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away. — Anais Nin Smell Copy Share Image
We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
