myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth — Anais Nin Instruments Copy Share Image
The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning. — Anais Nin Creation Copy Share Image
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. — Anais Nin Catastrophe Copy Share Image
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence,… — Anais Nin Absence Copy Share Image
“He worked on small canvases with a touch as light as a cobweb and coloring made of mirages. He lived there, at… — Anaïs Nin Artist Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the… — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm. — Anais Nin Animated Copy Share Image
Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it. — Anais Nin Books Copy Share Image
I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give… — Anais Nin Darling Copy Share Image
I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man… — Anais Nin Believe 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
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many… — Anais Nin Creation Copy Share Image
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had… — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual… — Anais Nin Individuality 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 Human beings Copy Share Image
I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in… — Anais Nin Abhorrent Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,… — Anais Nin Book Copy Share Image
We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families,… — Anais Nin Culture Copy Share Image
“I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you.… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused… — Anais Nin Answers Copy Share Image
“[Fall, 1951] To me Acapulco is the detoxicating cure for all the evils of the city: ambition, vanity, quest for success in… — Anaïs Nin Acapulco Copy Share Image
“How do I look to him?" she asked herself. She got up and brought a long mirror towards the window. She stood… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin 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
“I like to live always at the beginnings of life, not at their end. We all lose some of our faith under… — Anaïs Nin Beginning Copy Share Image
The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal… — Anais Nin Diaries Copy Share Image
Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like… — Anais Nin Body Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Awareness Copy Share Image
To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living. — Anais Nin Life Copy Share Image
The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted. — Anais Nin Destructive Copy Share Image
Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy. — Anais Nin Beats Copy Share Image
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