I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life. — Anais Nin Backstabbing Copy Share Image
Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the… — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it. — Anais Nin Books Copy Share Image
New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies… — Anais Nin Advantage Copy Share Image
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer. — Anais Nin Desire Copy Share Image
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage… — Anais Nin Courage Copy Share Image
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his… — Anais Nin Dreams Copy Share Image
We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families,… — Anais Nin Culture Copy Share Image
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for… — Anais Nin Beauty Copy Share Image
“I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you.… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full… — Anaïs Nin Alcohol Copy Share Image
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in,… — Anais Nin Ecstasy Copy Share Image
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in… — Anais Nin Aggression Copy Share Image
“She needed a confessor! Would she find it there, in the world of the artists? All over the world they had their… — Anaïs Nin Art Copy Share Image
“The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence. Every… — Anaïs Nin Love Copy Share Image
The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“[Fall, 1951] To me Acapulco is the detoxicating cure for all the evils of the city: ambition, vanity, quest for success in… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation… — Anaïs Nin Faith Copy Share Image
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are… — Anais Nin Awareness Copy Share Image
“Question: I am interested in so many things, and I have a terrible fear because my mother keeps telling me that I'm… — Anais Nin Fear Copy Share Image
“I feel that from the very beginning life played a terrible conjurer’s trick on me. I lost faith in it. It seems… — Anaïs Nin Every moment Copy Share Image
“Sunt două moduri de a ajunge la mine, prin săruturi sau prin imaginație.” — Anaïs Nin Amor Copy Share Image
“I gave away my mystery, knowing I shouldn't, yet incapable of anything else.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. — Anais Nin Catastrophe Copy Share Image