Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity. — Anais Nin America Copy Share Image
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anais Nin Dreamer Copy Share Image
Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror. — Anais Nin Cat Copy Share Image
There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace.… — Anais Nin Attitude Copy Share Image
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality… — Anais Nin Analogies Copy Share Image
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The most haunting woman is the one we cannot find in the crowded café when we are looking for her, the one… — Anaïs Nin Haunting Copy Share Image
I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop,… — Anais Nin Destruction Copy Share Image
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in… — Anais Nin Awareness Copy Share Image
I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own… — Anais Nin Alive Copy Share Image
Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The light was crude. It made Artaud's eyes shrink into darkness, as they are deep-set. This brought into relief the intensity of… — Anaïs Nin Acting Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Anais Nin Action Copy Share Image
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to… — anais nin Death Copy Share Image
“She was now afraid to yield to passion, and because she could not yield to the larger impulses it became essential also… — Anaïs Nin Passion Copy Share Image
“Things I forgot to tell you: That I love you, and that when I awake in the morning I use my intelligence… — Anaïs Nin Intelligent women Copy Share Image
Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“If I did not move and dance between them the three would turn to stone, for they are passive [...] They would… — Anaïs Nin Dance Copy Share Image
“In art, in history man fights his fears, he wants to live forever, he is afraid of death, he wants to work… — Anaïs Nin Afraid of death Copy Share Image
[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately. — Anais Nin Cities Copy Share Image
“Nevoia de a crește și de a trăi intens e atât de puternică în mine, încât nu-i pot rezista. Voi lucra, îmi… — Anaïs Nin Amor Copy Share Image
the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“No moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sorrows, growths,… — Anaïs Nin Beauty Copy Share Image
I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less… — Anais Nin Alive Copy Share Image
Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin Dogma Copy Share Image
“I said, "If there is an explanation of the mystery, it is this: the love between women is a refuge and an… — Anaïs Nin Love Copy Share Image
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love. — Anais Nin Aging Copy Share Image
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast. — Anais Nin Intercourse Copy Share Image
Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything. — Anais Nin Big business Copy Share Image
I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new… — Anais Nin Ecstasy Copy Share Image
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