You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination. — Anais Nin Demand Copy Share Image
“But my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world. — Anais Nin Identity Copy Share Image
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold… — Anais Nin Action Copy Share Image
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty. — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
“...human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's… — Anaïs Nin Barriers Copy Share Image
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. — Anais Nin Books Copy Share Image
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing. — Anais Nin Diaries Copy Share Image
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“When Henry telephones, I feel his voice in my veins. I want him to talk into me. I eat Henry, I breathe… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“His theatre was the clouds, where no spectacle repeated itself. On land he was a foreigner. Land for him was stasis, and… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, the senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful,… — Anaïs Nin Body Copy Share Image
Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater… — Anais Nin Giving Copy Share Image
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive.… — Anais Nin Alcohol Copy Share Image
The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his… — Anais Nin Dreams Copy Share Image
The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or… — Anais Nin 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 Copy Share Image
“The sea-lentils tied to giant serpentine string beans, sea-liquor brine, sea-lyme grass, sea-moss, sea-cucumbers. He never knew the sea had such a… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Before, as soon as I came home from all sorts of places I would sit down and write in my journal. Now… — Anaïs Nin Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
“Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in the woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself… — Anaïs Nin Desire 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… — Anaïs Nin Blind faith Copy Share Image
“Am I pushing or dying? the light up there, the immense round blazing white light is drinking me. It drinks me slowly,… — Anaïs Nin Darkness Copy Share Image
“The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two… — Anaïs Nin Adultery Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on… — Anais Nin Asphyxiation Copy Share Image
“I want eroticism mixed with love, and deep love one does not experience often.” — Anaïs Nin Deep love Copy Share Image
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, & you believe you are living. — Anais Nin 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
The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image. — Anais Nin Artist Copy Share Image
![“The sea-lentils tied to giant serpentine string beans, sea-liquor brine, sea-lyme grass, sea-moss, sea-cucumbers. He never knew the sea had such a lavish garden—sea-plumes, sea-grapes, sea-lungs. […] The sky put on its own evanescent spectacles, a pivoting stage, fugitive curtains, decors for…” quote by Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/595/anais-nin-288_clouds-spectacle_the-sea-lentils-tied-to-giant-serpentine_2778030.png)
