Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. — Anais Nin Illusion Copy Share Image
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, & you believe you are living. — Anais Nin Believe Copy Share Image
“I want eroticism mixed with love, and deep love one does not experience often.” — Anaïs Nin Deep love Copy Share Image
“But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again.” — Anaïs Nin Believe Copy Share Image
There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not… — Anais Nin Books Copy Share Image
We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry… — Anais Nin Feminine Copy Share Image
“I awoke at dawn, thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails.” — Anaïs Nin Awoke Copy Share Image
“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not… — Anaïs Nin Actions Copy Share Image
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life. — Anais Nin Believe Copy Share Image
The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well. — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the… — Anais Nin Behinds Copy Share Image
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you. — Anais Nin Dies 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
Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all… — Anais Nin Agitated 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
When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my… — Anais Nin Bears Copy Share Image
“I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means… — Anaïs Nin Crying Copy Share Image
the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it.… — Anais Nin Artist Copy Share Image
“This openness, which is closed again as soon as we face a partial relationship, the one who understands only one part of… — Anaïs Nin Love 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
“Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I… — Anaïs Nin Blind faith Copy Share Image
“Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself… — Anaïs Nin Desire Copy Share Image
“The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two… — Anaïs Nin Adultery 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
“The sea-lentils tied to giant serpentine string beans, sea-liquor brine, sea-lyme grass, sea-moss, sea-cucumbers. He never knew the sea had such a… — Anais Nin Clouds Spectacle 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
“The homosexuals wrote as if they were women. The timid ones wrote about orgies. The frigid ones about frenzied fulfill-ments. The most… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world. — Anais Nin Identity Copy Share Image
You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination. — Anais Nin Demand 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
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry. — Anais Nin Eroticism Copy Share Image
He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away. — Anais Nin Smell Copy Share Image
The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image. — Anais Nin Artist Copy Share Image