Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. — Anais Nin Contact Copy Share Image
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them. — Anais Nin And love Copy Share Image
We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are. — Anais Nin Inspirational Copy Share Image
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force. — Anais Nin America Copy Share Image
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” — Anais Nin Friend 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… — Anaïs Nin Humor Copy Share Image
The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium. — Anais Nin Diaries Copy Share Image
I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give… — Anais Nin Darling Copy Share Image
I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man… — Anais Nin Believe Copy Share Image
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we… — Anais Nin Adventure Copy Share Image
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was… — Anais Nin Dream Copy Share Image
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our… — Anais Nin Joy Copy Share Image
The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of… — Anais Nin Creation Copy Share Image
There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite.… — Anais Nin Accepting Copy Share Image
..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a… — Anais Nin Action Copy Share Image
Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all… — Anais Nin Duplicity Copy Share Image
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer… — Anais Nin Balance Copy Share Image
“Lillian did not know then that the one who believes he can pay this early debt meets a bottomless well. Because the… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets,… — Anais Nin Character 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
“The secret of a full life is to live and relate to others as if they might not be there tomorrow, as if you might not be there tomorrow. It eliminates the vice of procrastination, the sin of postponement, failed communications, failed communions. This thought has made me more and more attentive to all encounters. meetings, introductions, which might contain… — Anaïs Nin Communication Copy Share
Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality...I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing.… — Anais Nin Blind faith Copy Share
“Why is that I never get cut off from pity, sympathy, participation, in spite of the fact that I am living out… — Anaïs Nin Dreams Copy Share Image
“Woman’s role in creation should be parallel to her role in life. I don’t mean the good earth. I mean the bad… — Anais Nin Life Copy Share Image
The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as… — Anais Nin Absence Copy Share
“Hugo and I yield entirely to each other. We cannot be without each other, we cannot endure discord, war, estrangement, we cannot… — Anaïs Nin Love Copy Share Image
“Henry's recollections of the past, in contrast to Proust, are done while in movement. He may remember his first wife while making love to a whore, or he may remember his very first love while walking the streets, traveling to see a friend; and life does not stop while he remembers. Analysis in movement. No static vivisection. Henry's daily and… — Anaïs Nin First love Copy Share
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