He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge. — Anais Nin Independence 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
I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . . — Anais Nin Inspirational Copy Share Image
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy:… — Anais Nin Hierarchy Copy Share Image
And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it… — Anais Nin Being positive Copy Share Image
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. — Anais Nin Crisis Copy Share Image
At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky — Anais Nin Rebuttal Copy Share Image
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and… — Anais Nin Contagion Copy Share Image
I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique. — Anais Nin Ideas Copy Share Image
If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of… — Anais Nin Cities Copy Share Image
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against… — Anais Nin Acceptance Copy Share Image
What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow… — Anais Nin Alcohol Copy Share Image
She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of… — Anais Nin Feelings Copy Share Image
“There are things one reads that make you aware that you have lived nothing, felt nothing, experienced nothing up to that time.… — Anaïs Nin Fall in love Copy Share Image
But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure… — Anais Nin Art Copy Share Image
If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Why do I doubt her? Perhaps she is just very sensitive, and hypersensitive people are false when others doubt them; they waver.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“They walked in silence through the little streets of Chinatown. Women from all over the world smiled at them from open windows,… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in… — Anais Nin Anger Copy Share Image
“Like the Baron, Mathilde developed a formula for acting out life as a series of roles—that is, by saying to herself in… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
“The old concept of chronological, orderly, symmetrical development of character died when it was discovered that the unconscious motivations are entirely at… — Anaïs Nin Character Copy Share Image
“A writer, who was a celebrity in Paris, had entered her shop one day. He was not looking for a hat. He… — Anaïs Nin Anais-nin Copy Share Image
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for… — Anais Nin Action Copy Share Image
“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot… — Anais Nin Books Copy Share Image
I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me — Anais Nin Discoveries Copy Share Image
He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
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
