I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no… — Anais Nin Animal Copy Share Image
His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it. — Anais Nin Angel Copy Share Image
I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the… — Anais Nin Battle Copy Share Image
The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe. — Anais Nin Breath Copy Share Image
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Man is always trying to create a woman who will fill his needs, and that makes her untrue to herself.” — Anaïs Nin Feminism Copy Share Image
We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according… — Anais Nin Actor Copy Share Image
Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned. — Anais Nin Compassion Copy Share Image
“I feel so many things growing—my individuality, my confidence; I feel lines of my character growing stronger. I’m really sprouting, springing up,… — Anaïs Nin Confidence Copy Share Image
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on… — Anais Nin Bird Copy Share Image
What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it?… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I want to run out and kiss her fantastic beauty, kiss it and say, "You carry away with you a reflection of… — Anaïs Nin Beauty Copy Share Image
“A marine snail gliding through the familiar city. Only in a dream could I move so gently along with the small human… — Anaïs Nin Dream Copy Share Image
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new… — Anais Nin Ecstasy Copy Share Image
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid… — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes… — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to… — Anais Nin Blindness Copy Share Image
I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I see ashes under the skin of her face. Disintegration. What terrible anxiety I feel. I want to put my arms around… — Anaïs Nin Beauty Copy Share Image
“Everything could undergo conversion except the artists. How can you convert disorganizers of past and present order, the chronic dissenters, those dispossessed… — Anaïs Nin Art Copy Share Image
In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people,… — Anais Nin Childhood Copy Share Image
This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I walked into a white city. It was a honeycomb of ivory-white cells, streets like ribbons of old ermine. The stone and… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice,… — Anais Nin America Copy Share Image
When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone,… — Anais Nin Attraction Copy Share Image
I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs Anaïs Anaïs.… — Anais Nin Accents Copy Share Image
When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned… — Anais Nin Crisis Copy Share Image
“But what a superb game the three of us are playing. Who is the demon? Who is the liar? Who the human… — Anaïs Nin Demon Copy Share Image
I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it,"… — Anais Nin Book Copy Share Image
