Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry. — Anais Nin Eroticism Copy Share Image
He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away. — Anais Nin Smell Copy Share Image
I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them. — Anais Nin Inspirational Copy Share Image
We write to taste life twice, first in the moment and second in retrospect — Anais Nin Life Copy Share Image
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. — Anais Nin Human Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. — Anais Nin Asphyxiation 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
Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime. — Anais Nin Crime Copy Share Image
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see.” — Anaïs Nin Art 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 Copy Share Image
If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing)… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“As he sits there, I feel that I can see his mind as I see his body, and it is labyrinthine, fertile,… — Anaïs Nin Psychology Copy Share Image
We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations… — Anais Nin Attitude Copy Share Image
“I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understanding, or else I’m disillusioned and don’t… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of… — Anais Nin 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 have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“…For love it is never the same. What goes on inside is never the same just like this music which changes every… — Anaïs Nin Contrasts Copy Share Image
I told her, "We have both lost ourselves, but sometimes we reveal the most when we are least like ourselves. I am… — Anais Nin June Copy Share Image
Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“They walked in silence through the little streets of Chinatown. Women from all over the world smiled at them from open windows,… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in… — Anais Nin Anger Copy Share Image
“Like the Baron, Mathilde developed a formula for acting out life as a series of roles—that is, by saying to herself in… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“A writer, who was a celebrity in Paris, had entered her shop one day. He was not looking for a hat. He… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“The old concept of chronological, orderly, symmetrical development of character died when it was discovered that the unconscious motivations are entirely at… — Anaïs Nin Character Copy Share Image
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard — Anais Nin Change Copy Share Image
Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. — Anais Nin Illusion Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
