Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry. — Anais Nin Eroticism Copy Share Image
The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world. — Anais Nin Identity Copy Share Image
“I want eroticism mixed with love, and deep love one does not experience often.” — Anaïs Nin Deep love Copy Share Image
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances… — Anais Nin Art 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.” — Anaïs Nin Loneliness 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… — Anais Nin Dominated Copy Share Image
Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents. — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too… — Anais Nin Christmas Copy Share Image
America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul. — Anais Nin America Copy Share Image
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. — Anais Nin Compass Copy Share Image
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin Feelings Copy Share Image
“By beginning a diary, I was already conceding that life would be more bearable if I looked at it as an adventure… — Anaïs Nin Adventure Copy Share Image
How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with… — Anais Nin Birth Copy Share Image
She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the… — Anais Nin Ashes Copy Share Image
This morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me.… — Anais Nin Bed Copy Share Image
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on… — Anais Nin Bird Copy Share Image
Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest… — Anais Nin All things Copy Share Image
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes… — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to… — Anais Nin Blindness Copy Share Image
“They walked in silence through the little streets of Chinatown. Women from all over the world smiled at them from open windows,… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am… — Anais Nin June Copy Share Image
“The old concept of chronological, orderly, symmetrical development of character died when it was discovered that the unconscious motivations are entirely at… — Anaïs Nin Character Copy Share Image
“What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favour of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the… — Anaïs Nin Dreams Copy Share Image
“Am I pushing or dying? the light up there, the immense round blazing white light is drinking me. It drinks me slowly,… — Anaïs Nin Darkness 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… — Anaïs Nin Contrasts 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 Answers 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
![“What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favour of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the facts. [...] in self-defense, I accuse the writers of fairy-tales. Not hunger, not cruelty, not my parents, but these tales which promised that sleeping in the snow never caused…” quote by Anaïs Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/04f/anais-nin-288_dreams_what-i-corrupted-was-what-is-called-the_695981.jpg)
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