The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. — Anais Nin Curiosity Copy Share Image
“Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.” — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child. — Anais Nin Child Copy Share Image
Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents. — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write,… — Anais Nin Cry Copy Share Image
I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me. — Anais Nin Change Copy Share Image
The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love. — Anais Nin Intimacy Copy Share Image
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally,… — Anais Nin Balance 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
You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You… — Anais Nin Existence Copy Share Image
The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“the cape held within its folds something of what she imagined was a quality possessed exclusively by man: some dash, some audacity,… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“To capture the drama of the unconscious, one had to start with the key, and the key was the dream. But the… — Anaïs Nin Carl-jung Copy Share Image
Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get… — Anais Nin Ambiguity Copy Share Image
Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the… — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Hugo has been infinitely tender with me, but while he talks of June I think of our hands locked together. She does… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“while the rest of the show continued, she made her round of the boxes. There, on request, she knelt before a man,… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was… — Anais Nin Absence 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
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
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning. — Anais Nin Anxiety Copy Share Image
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too… — Anais Nin Christmas Copy Share Image
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth. — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience. — Anais Nin Certainty Copy Share Image
“what she hated above all was that most men in her presence wilted, grew small and feeble. only the timid ones approached… — anaïs nin Copy Share Image
America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul. — Anais Nin America Copy Share Image
“I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” — Anais Nin Ecstasy Copy Share Image
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not… — Anais Nin Acceptance Copy Share Image
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could… — Anais Nin Bears Copy Share Image
Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in… — Anais Nin Action Copy Share Image
“It was this that frightened me--the sense that behind the grande amoureuse lay concealed a little bourgeoise who wanted security in love.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin Feelings Copy Share Image
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. — Anais Nin Compass Copy Share Image
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Please understand I am in full rebellion against my own mind, that when I live, I live by impulse, by emotion, by… — Anaïs Nin Psychology Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
