[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately. — Anais Nin Cities Copy Share Image
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am… — Anais Nin Absence Copy Share Image
In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming,… — Anais Nin Acoustics Copy Share Image
Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains… — Anais Nin Appease Copy Share Image
“I'm neurotic--in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment… — Anais Nin Truth Copy Share Image
I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and… — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. — Anais Nin Explanation Copy Share Image
The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image. — Anais Nin Core Copy Share Image
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin And love Copy Share Image
“Man is always trying to create a woman who will fill his needs, and that makes her untrue to herself.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover,… — Anaïs Nin Kindness Copy Share Image
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that… — Anais Nin Ballet Copy Share Image
“Dear Collector: We hate you. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't… — Anais Nin Bud Copy Share Image
There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have… — Anais Nin Boundaries Copy Share Image
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar. — Anais Nin Insecurity Copy Share Image
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and… — Anais Nin Contagion Copy Share Image
The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie… — Anais Nin Cease Copy Share Image
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the risk it took to… — Anais Nin Breakup Copy Share Image