If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the… — Anais Nin Conscious Copy Share Image
“It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great… — Anaïs Nin Books Copy Share Image
Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest… — Anais Nin All things Copy Share Image
Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets,… — Anais Nin Character Copy Share Image
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. — Anais Nin Ideas Copy Share Image
I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only… — Anais Nin Bearable Copy Share Image
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its… — Anais Nin Truth Copy Share Image
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death — Anais Nin Body Copy Share Image
“We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade our lovers. We write to taste life twice, in… — Anaïs Nin Brainy-quotes Copy Share Image
“During the nuit blanche I think: Henry, my love, I can love you better now that you cannot hurt me. I can… — Anaïs Nin Better now Copy Share Image
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with… — Anais Nin Aspect Copy Share Image
For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of… — Anais Nin Achieve Copy Share Image
How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with… — Anais Nin Birth 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… — Anais Nin Blind faith Copy Share Image
“The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” — Anaïs Nin Writing Copy Share Image
It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday and… — Anais Nin Anger Copy Share Image
The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted. — Anais Nin Destructive Copy Share Image
it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom. — Anais Nin Freedom Copy Share Image
“At sixteen Sabina took moon baths, first of all because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had… — Anaïs Nin First time Copy Share Image
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not… — Anais Nin Change 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
“In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anaïs Nin Dreaming Copy Share Image
“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very… — Anaïs Nin Faithful wife Copy Share Image
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in… — Anais Nin Age Copy Share Image
