“you are a narcissist. That is the raison dêtre of the journal. Journal writing is a disease. But it's all right. It's… — Anaïs Nin Journal writing Copy Share Image
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive. — Anais Nin Able Copy Share Image
“I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understanding, or else I’m disillusioned and don’t… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want… — Anais Nin Anxiety Copy Share Image
I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them. — Anais Nin Inspirational Copy Share Image
“She could do nothing. Djuna’s words illuminated her chaos, but changed nothing. What was it Djuna said: that life tended to crystallize… — Anaïs Nin Life Copy Share Image
The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice,… — Anais Nin America Copy Share Image
“[Fall, 1951] To me Acapulco is the detoxicating cure for all the evils of the city: ambition, vanity, quest for success in… — Anaïs Nin Success Copy Share Image
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing. — Anais Nin Diaries Copy Share Image
Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the… — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire… — Anais Nin Breathing Copy Share Image
“I said, "If there is an explanation of the mystery, it is this: the love between women is a refuge and an… — Anaïs Nin Love Copy Share Image
We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection...… — Anais Nin Able Copy Share Image
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.” — Anais Nin Friend Copy Share Image
Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of… — Anais Nin Ability Copy Share Image
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought. — Anais Nin Chance 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
You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination. — Anais Nin Demand Copy Share Image
I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world… — Anais Nin Clear Copy Share Image
This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows… — Anais Nin Air Copy Share Image
