“Didn't the old man know how words carry colors and sounds into the flesh” — Anaïs Nin Language Copy Share Image
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating.” — Anaïs 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
Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws. — Anais Nin Dream Copy Share Image
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an… — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space,… — Anais Nin Dimensions Copy Share Image
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. — Anais Nin Experiments Copy Share Image
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously. — Anais Nin Hate Copy Share Image
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a… — Anais Nin Dream Copy Share Image
The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering… — Anais Nin Child Copy Share Image
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.” — Anaïs Nin Critical thinking 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
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
“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
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
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
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive… — Anais Nin Books Copy Share Image
To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and… — Anais Nin America 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 Copy Share Image
“Question: I am interested in so many things, and I have a terrible fear because my mother keeps telling me that I'm… — Anais Nin Fear Copy Share Image
“I feel that from the very beginning life played a terrible conjurer’s trick on me. I lost faith in it. It seems… — Anaïs Nin Every moment Copy Share Image
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are… — Anais Nin Awareness Copy Share Image
“You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation… — Anaïs Nin Faith Copy Share Image
“Her elongated eyes did not close as other women's eyes did, but like the eyes of tigers, pumas and leopards, the two… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“She needed a confessor! Would she find it there, in the world of the artists? All over the world they had their… — Anaïs Nin Art Copy Share Image
“The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence. Every… — Anaïs Nin Love Copy Share Image
We write to taste life twice, first in the moment and second in retrospect — Anais Nin Life Copy Share Image
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard — Anais Nin Change 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.” — Anaïs Nin Loneliness Copy Share Image
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones. — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances… — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
![“To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.” quote by Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/042/anais-nin-288_america_to-mistake-ugliness-for-reality-is-one-o_2772367.png)
