Best Anais Nin Proverbs
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I write emotional algebra.
Algebra
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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want…
Accord
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There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the…
Abandon
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In chaos, there is fertility.
Chaos
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Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
Always Balances
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[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…
Balance
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those…
Allow
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I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as…
Blind
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The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
Denies
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You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
Bit
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Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
Each
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
Joy
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We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
Far
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To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
Day
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I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try…
Acid
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I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of…
All
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I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.
Able
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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down…
Abandoned
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The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination:…
Armchair
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I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes…
Bearable
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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 porcelain. The muffled,…
Abstractions
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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
Acquired
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In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have…
Anyone
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
Conformity
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To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.
Commit
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