We write to taste life twice, first in the moment and second in retrospect — Anais Nin Life Copy Share Image
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. — Anais Nin Contact Copy Share Image
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of… — Anais Nin Devouring Copy Share Image
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the… — Anais Nin Accord Copy Share Image
“Didn't the old man know how words carry colors and sounds into the flesh” — Anaïs Nin Language Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. — Anais Nin Finals Copy Share Image
I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In… — Anais Nin Corruption Copy Share Image
“I spell ‘god’ with a small ‘g’ because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.” — Anaïs Nin Believe Copy Share Image
Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record… — Anais Nin Highest Copy Share Image
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. — Anais Nin Tolerable Copy Share Image
“Around her hair there was a saffron aureole, and her skin was a sea shell...” — Anaïs Nin Sea shell Copy Share Image
“All through the dream there was a sense of great disorder, of movements which accomplished nothing, of everything being late, of everybody… — Anaïs Nin Dreams Copy Share Image
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves. — Anais Nin Inspirational Copy Share Image
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and… — Anais Nin Believe Copy Share Image
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life… — Anais Nin After death Copy Share Image
Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with… — Anais Nin Grows Copy Share Image
“-You know I've always wanted to break the molds which life forms around one if one lets them. -Why? -I want to… — Anaïs Nin Hope Copy Share Image
I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the… — Anais Nin Acid Copy Share Image
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could… — Anais Nin Bears Copy Share Image
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. — Anais Nin Curiosity Copy Share Image
“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not… — Anaïs Nin Admiration Copy Share Image
