“His theatre was the clouds, where no spectacle repeated itself. On land he was a foreigner. Land for him was stasis, and… — Anaïs Nin Collages Copy Share Image
“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I want to live… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“I thought of my difficulties with writing, my struggles to articulate feelings not easily expressed. Of my struggles to find a language… — Anaïs Nin Adversity Copy Share Image
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones. — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. — Anais Nin Abstract Copy Share Image
I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life. — Anais Nin Being myself Copy Share Image
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and… — Anais Nin Artist Copy Share Image
“And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“I want to run out and kiss her fantastic beauty, kiss it and say, "You carry away with you a reflection of… — Anaïs Nin Beauty Copy Share Image
“I suffered from other kinds of pangs. I was prone to the most excessive dreaming, of such intensity and realism that when… — Anaïs Nin Dreams Copy Share Image
I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men… — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
“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
“I feel that from the very beginning life played a terrible conjurer’s trick on me. I lost faith in it. It seems… — Anaïs Nin Every moment Copy Share Image
“We don't see things how they are, we see things the way we are.” — Anaïs Nin Reality Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream. — Anais Nin Dream 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
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise,… — Anais Nin Bird Copy Share Image
I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned… — Anais Nin Book Copy Share Image
I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the… — Anais Nin Battle Copy Share Image
“Since that talk with Henry, when I admitted more than I had ever admitted to myself, my life has altered and become… — Anaïs Nin Infidelity Copy Share Image
