To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living. — Anais Nin Life Copy Share Image
The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning. — Anais Nin Creation Copy Share Image
“Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a… — Anaïs Nin Comedy Copy Share Image
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” — Anais Nin Friend Copy Share Image
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force. — Anais Nin America Copy Share Image
The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium. — Anais Nin Diaries Copy Share Image
I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was… — Anais Nin Dream Copy Share Image
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we… — Anais Nin Adventure Copy Share Image
I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned… — Anais Nin Book Copy Share Image
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many… — Anais Nin Creation Copy Share Image
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had… — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual… — Anais Nin Individuality Copy Share Image
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment… — Anais Nin Human beings Copy Share Image
I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,… — Anais Nin Book Copy Share Image
“At sixteen Sabina took moon baths, first of all because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“I like to live always at the beginnings of life, not at their end. We all lose some of our faith under… — Anaïs Nin Beginning Copy Share Image
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal… — Anais Nin Diaries Copy Share Image
“It is undeniable that the source of all our miseries comes from our obstinacy in maintaining that Paradise is a garden. The… — Anaïs Nin Dreams Copy Share Image
“How do I look to him?" she asked herself. She got up and brought a long mirror towards the window. She stood… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“June, you have killed my sincerity too. I will never again know who I am, what I am, what I love, what… — Anaïs Nin Beauty Copy Share Image
“while the rest of the show continued, she made her round of the boxes. There, on request, she knelt before a man,… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Hugo has been infinitely tender with me, but while he talks of June I think of our hands locked together. She does… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Around her hair there was a saffron aureole, and her skin was a sea shell...” — Anaïs Nin Saffron Copy Share Image
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are. — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
