Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence,… — Anais Nin Absence Copy Share Image
... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others. — Anais Nin America Copy Share Image
I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part… — Anais Nin Costumes Copy Share Image
The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage… — Anais Nin Courage Copy Share Image
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in,… — Anais Nin Ecstasy Copy Share Image
“I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you.… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for… — Anais Nin Beauty Copy Share Image
“Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full… — Anaïs Nin Alcohol Copy Share Image
We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families,… — Anais Nin Culture Copy Share Image
I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,… — Anais Nin Book Copy Share Image
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual… — Anais Nin Individuality Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and… — Anais Nin Body Copy Share Image
“You know, Lillian, someday I will sit down and write a little dictionary for you, a little Chinese dictionary. In it I… — Anaïs Nin Language Copy Share Image
The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys.… — Anais Nin Bridges Copy Share Image
“Do you know what I would answer to someone who asked me for a description of myself, in a hurry? This: ??… — Anaïs Nin Books Copy Share Image
“You do not know what you are missing by your microscopic examination of sexual activity to the exclusion of aspects which are… — Anais Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with… — Anais Nin 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… — Anais Nin Children Copy Share Image
