Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. — Anais Nin Enchantment Copy Share Image
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who… — Anais Nin Curiosity Copy Share Image
Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without… — Anais Nin Alive Copy Share Image
The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what… — Anais Nin Endless Copy Share Image
I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness.… — Anais Nin Add Copy Share Image
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly. — Anais Nin Leader Copy Share Image
Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge. — Anais Nin Independence Copy Share Image
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was… — Anais Nin Ashamed Copy Share Image
“Se o que Proust diz é verdade, que a felicidade é a ausência do delírio, então eu nunca conhecerei a felicidade. Pois… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride… — Anais Nin Accepting Copy Share Image
I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as… — Anais Nin Catastrophe Copy Share Image
I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough. — Anais Nin Creatures Copy Share Image
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. — Anais Nin Depth Copy Share Image
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary… — Anais Nin Disregard Copy Share Image
“That night Fay became a woman, making a secret of her pain, intent on saving her happiness with Albert, on showing wisdom… — Anaïs Nin Happiness Copy Share Image
“Hugo has been infinitely tender with me, but while he talks of June I think of our hands locked together. She does… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it… — Anais Nin Clarity Copy Share Image
Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is… — Anais Nin Adrift Copy Share Image
“The light was crude. It made Artaud's eyes shrink into darkness, as they are deep-set. This brought into relief the intensity of… — Anaïs Nin Acting Copy Share Image