--- title: "24 Way Quotes By Anais Nin" description: "24 Way quotes by Anais Nin. Plus more from Anais Nin and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/anais-nin-288_easy_it-is-easy-to-love-and-there-are-so-many_2009640.png" --- > [It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/it-is-easy-to-love-and-there-are-so-many-ways-to-do-it/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/anais-nin-288_easy_it-is-easy-to-love-and-there-are-so-many_2009640.png) > [Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/nothing-too-long-imagined-can-be-perfect-in-a-wordly-way/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9af/anais-nin-288_imagination_nothing-too-long-imagined-can-be-perfect_298807.png) > [notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/notes-fly-so-much-farther-than-words-there-is-no-other-way-to-reach/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9a/anais-nin-288_infinite_notes-fly-so-much-farther-than-words-the_610617.png) > [Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/things-aren-t-the-way-they-are-they-re-the-way-you-are/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b0/anais-nin-288_things_things-aren-t-the-way-they-are-they-re-t_3199468.png) > [We see things the way we are, not the way they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-see-things-the-way-we-are-not-the-way-they-are/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbb/anais-nin-288_things_we-see-things-the-way-we-are-not-the-way_53103.png) > [The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-way-to-recognize-a-dead-word-is-that-it-exudes-boredom/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e36/anais-nin-288_boredom_the-way-to-recognize-a-dead-word-is-that_247008.png) > [I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-want-to-fall-in-love-in-such-a-way-that-the-mere-sight-of-a-man/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a2/anais-nin-288_block_i-want-to-fall-in-love-in-such-a-way-tha_902285.png) > [What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/what-everyone-forgets-is-that-passion-is-not-merely-a-heightened/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/912/anais-nin-288_awareness_what-everyone-forgets-is-that-passion-is_2827356.jpg) > [Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/reality-doesn-t-impress-me-i-only-believe-in-intoxication-in-ecstasy-2/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50b/anais-nin-288_believe_reality-doesn-t-impress-me-i-only-believ_2207308.png) > [For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/for-you-and-for-me-the-highest-moment-the-keenest-joy-is-not-when-our/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbd/anais-nin-288_joy_for-you-and-for-me-the-highest-moment-th_2242557.jpg) > [If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/if-all-of-us-acted-in-unison-as-i-act-individually-there-would-be-no/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38f/anais-nin-288_fate_if-all-of-us-acted-in-unison-as-i-act-in_1502163.jpg) > [There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/there-are-two-ways-to-reach-me-by-way-of-kisses-or-by-way-of-the/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/anais-nin-288_hierarchy_there-are-two-ways-to-reach-me-by-way-of_695158.png) > [For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/for-the-neurotic-the-merging-of-the-subconscious-and-the-conscious/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffd/anais-nin-288_achieve_for-the-neurotic-the-merging-of-the-subc_561362.jpg) > [Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/poetry-which-is-our-relation-to-the-senses-enables-us-to-retain-a/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/anais-nin-288_all-things_poetry-which-is-our-relation-to-the-sens_532471.png) > [She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/she-had-acquired-some-of-his-gypsy-ways-some-of-his-nonchalance-his/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/078/anais-nin-288_ashes_she-had-acquired-some-of-his-gypsy-ways_494081.png) > [Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/not-afraid-of-poverty-and-drabness-and-who-is-untouched-by-it/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/anais-nin-288_anecdotes_not-afraid-of-poverty-and-drabness-and-w_1623089.jpg) > [Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/women-always-think-that-when-they-have-my-shoes-my-dress-my/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed1/anais-nin-288_beautiful_women-always-think-that-when-they-have-m_246027.jpg) > [the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-best-way-to-remember-a-beautiful-city-or-a-beautiful-painting-is/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4c/anais-nin-288_artist_the-best-way-to-remember-a-beautiful-cit_1244822.jpg) > [I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-don-t-hear-your-words-your-voice-reverberates-against-my-body-like/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/055/anais-nin-288_blood_i-don-t-hear-your-words-your-voice-rever_159038.png) > [We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-celebrate-peace-yet-we-pay-no-attention-to-the-ways-of-curing/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/anais-nin-288_aggression_we-celebrate-peace-yet-we-pay-no-attenti_463862.jpg) > [I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-told-her-we-have-both-lost-ourselves-but-sometimes-we-reveal-the/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/anais-nin-288_june_i-told-her-we-have-both-lost-ourselves-b_936346.jpg) > [Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/again-i-take-a-taxi-to-clichy-address-but-feel-that-i-do-not-want-to/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e4/anais-nin-288_addresses_again-i-take-a-taxi-to-clichy-address-bu_938721.png) > [I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-am-an-excitable-person-who-only-understands-life-lyrically/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/anais-nin-288_art_i-am-an-excitable-person-who-only-unders_645491.jpg) > [ \[in the\]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/in-the-curious-way-that-my-idealism-has-been-mixed-with-my-fatalism/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/anais-nin-288_balance_in-the-curious-way-that-my-idealism-has_127099.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Anais Nin > [I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-wanted-to-remember-in-order-to-be-able-to-return/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [“…For love it is never the same. What goes on inside is never the same just like this music which changes every instant. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/for-love-it-is-never-the-same-what-goes-on-inside-is-never-the-same/) [Anaïs Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/jazz-is-the-music-of-the-body-the-breath-comes-through-brass-it-is/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-have-so-strong-a-sense-of-creation-of-tomorrow-that-i-cannot-get/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-don-t-have-a-language-for-the-senses-feelings-are-images/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/strange-isn-t-it-that-no-chemical-will-give-a-human-being-the/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-personal-if-it-is-deep-enough-becomes-universal-mythical-symbolic/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/introspection-is-a-devouring-monster-you-have-to-feed-it-with-much/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/in-each-studio-there-is-a-human-being-dressed-in-the-full-regalia-of/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-don-t-mind-working-holding-my-ground-intellectually-artistically/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [“Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/laughter-and-tears-are-not-separate-experiences-with-intervals-of/) [Anaïs Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-basis-of-insincerity-is-the-idealized-image-we-hold-of-ourselves/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [I write emotional algebra.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-write-emotional-algebra/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-role-of-the-writer-is-not-to-say-what-we-can-all-say-but-what-we/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) > [I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-say-quotations-are-literary-they-are-good-only-when-dealing-with/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/anais-nin/#itemlist", "name": "24 Way Quotes By Anais Nin", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/it-is-easy-to-love-and-there-are-so-many-ways-to-do-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/anais-nin-288_easy_it-is-easy-to-love-and-there-are-so-many_2009640.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/anais-nin-288_easy_it-is-easy-to-love-and-there-are-so-many_2009640.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/anais-nin-288_easy_it-is-easy-to-love-and-there-are-so-many_2009640.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/nothing-too-long-imagined-can-be-perfect-in-a-wordly-way/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9af/anais-nin-288_imagination_nothing-too-long-imagined-can-be-perfect_298807.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9af/anais-nin-288_imagination_nothing-too-long-imagined-can-be-perfect_298807.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9af/anais-nin-288_imagination_nothing-too-long-imagined-can-be-perfect_298807.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/notes-fly-so-much-farther-than-words-there-is-no-other-way-to-reach/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9a/anais-nin-288_infinite_notes-fly-so-much-farther-than-words-the_610617.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9a/anais-nin-288_infinite_notes-fly-so-much-farther-than-words-the_610617.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9a/anais-nin-288_infinite_notes-fly-so-much-farther-than-words-the_610617.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/things-aren-t-the-way-they-are-they-re-the-way-you-are/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b0/anais-nin-288_things_things-aren-t-the-way-they-are-they-re-t_3199468.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b0/anais-nin-288_things_things-aren-t-the-way-they-are-they-re-t_3199468.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b0/anais-nin-288_things_things-aren-t-the-way-they-are-they-re-t_3199468.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We see things the way we are, not the way they are.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-see-things-the-way-we-are-not-the-way-they-are/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbb/anais-nin-288_things_we-see-things-the-way-we-are-not-the-way_53103.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbb/anais-nin-288_things_we-see-things-the-way-we-are-not-the-way_53103.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbb/anais-nin-288_things_we-see-things-the-way-we-are-not-the-way_53103.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We see things the way we are, not the way they are.” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-way-to-recognize-a-dead-word-is-that-it-exudes-boredom/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e36/anais-nin-288_boredom_the-way-to-recognize-a-dead-word-is-that_247008.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e36/anais-nin-288_boredom_the-way-to-recognize-a-dead-word-is-that_247008.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e36/anais-nin-288_boredom_the-way-to-recognize-a-dead-word-is-that_247008.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-want-to-fall-in-love-in-such-a-way-that-the-mere-sight-of-a-man/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a2/anais-nin-288_block_i-want-to-fall-in-love-in-such-a-way-tha_902285.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a2/anais-nin-288_block_i-want-to-fall-in-love-in-such-a-way-tha_902285.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a2/anais-nin-288_block_i-want-to-fall-in-love-in-such-a-way-tha_902285.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/what-everyone-forgets-is-that-passion-is-not-merely-a-heightened/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/912/anais-nin-288_awareness_what-everyone-forgets-is-that-passion-is_2827356.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/912/anais-nin-288_awareness_what-everyone-forgets-is-that-passion-is_2827356.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/912/anais-nin-288_awareness_what-everyone-forgets-is-that-passion-is_2827356.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/reality-doesn-t-impress-me-i-only-believe-in-intoxication-in-ecstasy-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50b/anais-nin-288_believe_reality-doesn-t-impress-me-i-only-believ_2207308.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50b/anais-nin-288_believe_reality-doesn-t-impress-me-i-only-believ_2207308.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50b/anais-nin-288_believe_reality-doesn-t-impress-me-i-only-believ_2207308.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/for-you-and-for-me-the-highest-moment-the-keenest-joy-is-not-when-our/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbd/anais-nin-288_joy_for-you-and-for-me-the-highest-moment-th_2242557.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbd/anais-nin-288_joy_for-you-and-for-me-the-highest-moment-th_2242557.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbd/anais-nin-288_joy_for-you-and-for-me-the-highest-moment-th_2242557.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/if-all-of-us-acted-in-unison-as-i-act-individually-there-would-be-no/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38f/anais-nin-288_fate_if-all-of-us-acted-in-unison-as-i-act-in_1502163.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38f/anais-nin-288_fate_if-all-of-us-acted-in-unison-as-i-act-in_1502163.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38f/anais-nin-288_fate_if-all-of-us-acted-in-unison-as-i-act-in_1502163.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/there-are-two-ways-to-reach-me-by-way-of-kisses-or-by-way-of-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/anais-nin-288_hierarchy_there-are-two-ways-to-reach-me-by-way-of_695158.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/anais-nin-288_hierarchy_there-are-two-ways-to-reach-me-by-way-of_695158.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/anais-nin-288_hierarchy_there-are-two-ways-to-reach-me-by-way-of_695158.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/for-the-neurotic-the-merging-of-the-subconscious-and-the-conscious/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffd/anais-nin-288_achieve_for-the-neurotic-the-merging-of-the-subc_561362.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffd/anais-nin-288_achieve_for-the-neurotic-the-merging-of-the-subc_561362.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffd/anais-nin-288_achieve_for-the-neurotic-the-merging-of-the-subc_561362.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/poetry-which-is-our-relation-to-the-senses-enables-us-to-retain-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/anais-nin-288_all-things_poetry-which-is-our-relation-to-the-sens_532471.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/anais-nin-288_all-things_poetry-which-is-our-relation-to-the-sens_532471.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/844/anais-nin-288_all-things_poetry-which-is-our-relation-to-the-sens_532471.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/she-had-acquired-some-of-his-gypsy-ways-some-of-his-nonchalance-his/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/078/anais-nin-288_ashes_she-had-acquired-some-of-his-gypsy-ways_494081.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/078/anais-nin-288_ashes_she-had-acquired-some-of-his-gypsy-ways_494081.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/078/anais-nin-288_ashes_she-had-acquired-some-of-his-gypsy-ways_494081.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/not-afraid-of-poverty-and-drabness-and-who-is-untouched-by-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/anais-nin-288_anecdotes_not-afraid-of-poverty-and-drabness-and-w_1623089.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/anais-nin-288_anecdotes_not-afraid-of-poverty-and-drabness-and-w_1623089.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d5d/anais-nin-288_anecdotes_not-afraid-of-poverty-and-drabness-and-w_1623089.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/women-always-think-that-when-they-have-my-shoes-my-dress-my/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed1/anais-nin-288_beautiful_women-always-think-that-when-they-have-m_246027.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed1/anais-nin-288_beautiful_women-always-think-that-when-they-have-m_246027.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed1/anais-nin-288_beautiful_women-always-think-that-when-they-have-m_246027.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 18, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/the-best-way-to-remember-a-beautiful-city-or-a-beautiful-painting-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4c/anais-nin-288_artist_the-best-way-to-remember-a-beautiful-cit_1244822.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4c/anais-nin-288_artist_the-best-way-to-remember-a-beautiful-cit_1244822.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4c/anais-nin-288_artist_the-best-way-to-remember-a-beautiful-cit_1244822.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 19, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-don-t-hear-your-words-your-voice-reverberates-against-my-body-like/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/055/anais-nin-288_blood_i-don-t-hear-your-words-your-voice-rever_159038.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/055/anais-nin-288_blood_i-don-t-hear-your-words-your-voice-rever_159038.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/055/anais-nin-288_blood_i-don-t-hear-your-words-your-voice-rever_159038.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 20, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/we-celebrate-peace-yet-we-pay-no-attention-to-the-ways-of-curing/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/anais-nin-288_aggression_we-celebrate-peace-yet-we-pay-no-attenti_463862.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/anais-nin-288_aggression_we-celebrate-peace-yet-we-pay-no-attenti_463862.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83f/anais-nin-288_aggression_we-celebrate-peace-yet-we-pay-no-attenti_463862.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 21, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I told her, \"We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am not trying to think any more. I can't think when I am with you. You are like me, wishing for a perfect moment, but nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way. Neither one of us can say just the right thing. We are overwhelmed. Let us be overwhelmed. It is so lovely, so lovely. I love you June.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-told-her-we-have-both-lost-ourselves-but-sometimes-we-reveal-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/anais-nin-288_june_i-told-her-we-have-both-lost-ourselves-b_936346.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/anais-nin-288_june_i-told-her-we-have-both-lost-ourselves-b_936346.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3e/anais-nin-288_june_i-told-her-we-have-both-lost-ourselves-b_936346.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I told her, \"We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 22, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves me (having realized that nobody will ever love me in that overabundant, overexpressive, overthoughtful, overhuman way I love people), and so I will wait for him. So I ask taxi driver to drop me at the Galeries Lafayette, where I begin to look for a new hat and to shop for Christmas. Pride? I don't know. A kind of wise retreat. I need people too much. So I bury my gigantic defect, my overflow of love, under trivialities, like a child. I amuse myself with a new hat.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/again-i-take-a-taxi-to-clichy-address-but-feel-that-i-do-not-want-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e4/anais-nin-288_addresses_again-i-take-a-taxi-to-clichy-address-bu_938721.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e4/anais-nin-288_addresses_again-i-take-a-taxi-to-clichy-address-bu_938721.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e4/anais-nin-288_addresses_again-i-take-a-taxi-to-clichy-address-bu_938721.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 23, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/i-am-an-excitable-person-who-only-understands-life-lyrically/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/anais-nin-288_art_i-am-an-excitable-person-who-only-unders_645491.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/anais-nin-288_art_i-am-an-excitable-person-who-only-unders_645491.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/anais-nin-288_art_i-am-an-excitable-person-who-only-unders_645491.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 24, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time…I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind…", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anais Nin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/in-the-curious-way-that-my-idealism-has-been-mixed-with-my-fatalism/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/anais-nin-288_balance_in-the-curious-way-that-my-idealism-has_127099.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/anais-nin-288_balance_in-the-curious-way-that-my-idealism-has_127099.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/anais-nin-288_balance_in-the-curious-way-that-my-idealism-has_127099.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a…” — Anais Nin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/anais-nin/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/anais-nin/", "name": "Way Quotes by Anais Nin", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/anais-nin/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/anais-nin-288_easy_it-is-easy-to-love-and-there-are-so-many_2009640.png" }, "description": "24 Way quotes by Anais Nin. Plus more from Anais Nin and more Way sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/anais-nin/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/anais-nin/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Way", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Anais Nin", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/anais-nin/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```