I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. — Anais Nin Believe Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream. — Anais Nin Dream Copy Share Image
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life. — Anais Nin Backstabbing Copy Share Image
myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth — Anais Nin Instruments Copy Share Image
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often. — Anais Nin Different Copy Share Image
They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to… — Anais Nin Faces Copy Share Image
“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.” — Anaïs Nin Dream Copy Share Image
Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty… — Anais Nin Fullness Copy Share Image
I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put… — Anais Nin Cheat Copy Share Image
“And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to… — Anaïs Nin Self help 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
I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life. — Anais Nin Being myself 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 Hotel room 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 Endless 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 Armchairs 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
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
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 Blood 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
“In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anaïs Nin Dreaming Copy Share Image
“I'm in love with New York. It matches my mood. I'm not overwhelmed. It is the suitable scene for my ever ever… — Anaïs Nin City Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I would answer to someone who asked me for a description of myself, in a hurry? This: ??… — Anaïs Nin Books Copy Share Image
“You know, Lillian, someday I will sit down and write a little dictionary for you, a little Chinese dictionary. In it I… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and… — Anais Nin Body Copy Share Image
Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on… — Anais Nin Acid Copy Share Image
The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys.… — Anais Nin Bridges Copy Share Image
The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of… — Anais Nin Accepting Copy Share Image
