Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life. — Anais Nin Friend Copy Share Image
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite. — Anais Nin Circles Copy Share Image
He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“His room was like an explorer's den, a lair of furs, the cave of a magician.” — Anaïs Nin Cave Copy Share Image
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was… — Anais Nin Dream Copy Share Image
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we… — Anais Nin Adventure Copy Share Image
The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us. — Anais Nin Conformity Copy Share Image
“When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“I'm neurotic--in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to… — Anaïs Nin Neurotic Copy Share Image
“I spell ‘god’ with a small ‘g’ because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.” — Anaïs Nin 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 is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without… — Anais Nin Alive Copy Share Image
She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two… — Anais Nin Desire Copy Share Image
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to… — Anais Nin Cycles Copy Share Image
Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets,… — Anais Nin Character Copy Share Image
“Lillian did not know then that the one who believes he can pay this early debt meets a bottomless well. Because the… — Anaïs Nin Revenge Copy Share Image
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer… — Anais Nin Balance 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
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
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
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
When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly… — Anais Nin Body 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
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so… — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and… — Anais Nin Adversity Copy Share Image
“I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Anais Nin Action Copy Share Image
Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge. — Anais Nin Independence Copy Share Image
My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living. — Anais Nin Inspirational Copy Share Image
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. — Anais Nin Break up Copy Share Image
![“[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time…I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind…” quote by Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f08/anais-nin-288_balance_in-the-curious-way-that-my-idealism-has_127099.jpg)
![“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)
