We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. — Anais Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. — Anais Nin Addiction Copy Share Image
I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life. — Anais Nin Analysis Copy Share Image
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. — Anais Nin Life Copy Share Image
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well. — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
“We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not… — Anaïs Nin Actions Copy Share Image
“I awoke at dawn, thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry… — Anais Nin Feminine Copy Share Image
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. — Anais Nin Desire Copy Share Image
There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not… — Anais Nin Books Copy Share Image
I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say:… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality… — Anais Nin Analogies Copy Share Image
“The most haunting woman is the one we cannot find in the crowded café when we are looking for her, the one… — Anaïs Nin Haunting Copy Share Image
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men… — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And… — Anais Nin Barriers Copy Share Image
“Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to… — Anaïs Nin Books Copy Share Image
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am… — Anais Nin Absence Copy Share Image
“I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colors created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been… — Anaïs Nin Artist Copy Share Image
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there… — Anaïs Nin Change Copy Share Image
“When does real love begin? At first it was a fire, eclipses, short circuits, lightning and fireworks; the incense, hammocks, drugs, wines,… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“She could do nothing. Djuna’s words illuminated her chaos, but changed nothing. What was it Djuna said: that life tended to crystallize… — Anaïs Nin Life Copy Share Image
“It is true that I create over and over again the same difficulties for myself in order to struggle over and over… — Anaïs Nin Adversity Copy Share Image
It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise,… — Anais Nin Bird Copy Share Image
“I was sure the old man knew nothing about the beatitudes, ecstasies, dazzling reverberations of sexual encounters. Cut out the poetry was… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening,… — Anais Nin Aperture Copy Share Image
“As June walked toward me from the darkness of the garden into the light of the door, I saw for the first… — Anaïs Nin Admiration Copy Share Image
There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through. — Anais Nin Dreams Copy Share Image
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry. — Anais Nin Poetry Copy Share Image
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. — Anais Nin Body Copy Share Image
I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived. — Anais Nin Inspirational Copy Share Image
![“It is true that I create over and over again the same difficulties for myself in order to struggle over and over again to master them [but] to continually struggle against the same problem and to continually fail to dominate it brings a feeling of frustration and a kind of paralysis. What is…” quote by Anaïs Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/189/anais-nin-288_adversity_it-is-true-that-i-create-over-and-over-a_1528680.png)
