Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold. — Anais Nin Alchemy Copy Share Image
When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color. — Anais Nin Color Copy Share Image
The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well. — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because… — Anais Nin Inspirational Copy Share Image
We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts… — Anais Nin Abundance Copy Share Image
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be… — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through… — Anais Nin Color Copy Share Image
“That last afternoon in Henry's hotel room was for me like a white-hot furnace. Before, I had only white heat of the… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not… — Anais Nin Change Copy Share Image
When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire… — Anais Nin Breathing Copy Share Image
The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection.… — Anais Nin Blind Copy Share Image
“The inner hatreds of men are now projected outside. There are fights in the streets. Revolutions in France, they say. Men did… — Anaïs Nin Revolution Copy Share Image
“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot… — Anais Nin Books Copy Share Image
“What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favour of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the… — Anaïs Nin Dreams Copy Share Image
“Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“The homosexuals wrote as if they were women. The timid ones wrote about orgies. The frigid ones about frenzied fulfill-ments. The most… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“Her lack of confidence in life, in realization, in the fulfillment of her desires, in the outcome of a dream, in the… — Anaïs Nin Confidence Copy Share Image
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for… — Anais Nin Action Copy Share Image
“The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated "dose" of life. I… — Anaïs Nin Books Copy Share Image
For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. — Anais Nin Ideas Copy Share Image
Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of… — Anais Nin Ability Copy Share Image
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. — Anais Nin Adversity Copy Share Image
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon.… — Anais Nin Book Copy Share Image
![“What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favour of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the facts. [...] in self-defense, I accuse the writers of fairy-tales. Not hunger, not cruelty, not my parents, but these tales which promised that sleeping in the snow never caused…” quote by Anaïs Nin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/04f/anais-nin-288_dreams_what-i-corrupted-was-what-is-called-the_695981.jpg)
