Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing. — Anais Nin Beautiful Copy Share Image
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold. — Anais Nin Alchemy Copy Share Image
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. — Anais Nin Enchantment Copy Share Image
The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I… — Anais Nin Kingdoms Copy Share Image
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought. — Anais Nin Chance Copy Share Image
To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not… — Anaïs Nin Admiration Copy Share Image
If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child.… — Anais Nin Children Copy Share Image
“Our talks are wonderful, interplays, not duels but swift illuminations of one another. I can make his tentative thoughts click. He enlarges… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in… — Anaïs Nin Lust Copy Share Image
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In… — Anais Nin Corruption Copy Share Image
“If I did not move and dance between them the three would turn to stone, for they are passive [...] They would… — Anaïs Nin Dance Copy Share Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anais Nin Action Copy Share Image
“We write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade… — Anaïs Nin Life Copy Share Image
The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I'm putting back into the self the responsibility for the collective life. If each one of us took very seriously the fact… — Anaïs Nin Life Copy Share Image
“The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated "dose" of life. I… — Anaïs Nin Books Copy Share Image
And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more… — Anais Nin Body Copy Share Image
“During the nuit blanche I think: Henry, my love, I can love you better now that you cannot hurt me. I can… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color. — Anais Nin Color Copy Share Image
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. — Anais Nin Ideas Copy Share Image
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