Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was… — Anais Nin 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 Copy Share Image
My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. — 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 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
“How can I accept a limited definable self when I feel, in me, all possibilities?... I never feel the four walls around… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“…For love it is never the same. What goes on inside is never the same just like this music which changes every instant. For… — 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 moans are… — Anais Nin 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 well, less… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin 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
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. — Anais Nin 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 creations, and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated — Anais Nin 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 sword between… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
