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  • #1
    Anaïs Nin
    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
    Anais Nin

  • #2
    Anaïs Nin
    “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
    Anais Nin

  • #3
    Anaïs Nin
    “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
    Anais Nin

  • #4
    Anaïs Nin
    “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
    Anais Nin

  • #5
    Anaïs Nin
    “I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    Anais Nin

  • #6
    Anaïs Nin
    “There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
    Anais Nin

  • #7
    Anaïs Nin
    “If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
    Anais Nin

  • #8
    Anaïs Nin
    “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
    Anais Nin

  • #9
    Anaïs Nin
    “Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”
    Anais Nin

  • #10
    Anaïs Nin
    “Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”
    Anais Nin

  • #11
    Anaïs Nin
    “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”
    Anais Nin

  • #12
    Anaïs Nin
    “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
    Anais Nin

  • #13
    Anaïs Nin
    “I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
    Anais Nin

  • #14
    Anaïs Nin
    “Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.”
    Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

  • #15
    Anaïs Nin
    “The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
    Anais Nin

  • #16
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
    tags: love

  • #17
    Anaïs Nin
    “I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
    Anais Nin

  • #18
    Anaïs Nin
    “The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
    Anais Nin

  • #19
    Anaïs Nin
    “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
    ANAIS NIN

  • #20
    Anaïs Nin
    “I write emotional algebra.”
    Anais Nin

  • #21
    Erica Jong
    “The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.”
    Erica Jong

  • #22
    Anaïs Nin
    “If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #23
    Anaïs Nin
    “I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.”
    Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

  • #24
    Anaïs Nin
    “The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.”
    Anais Nin

  • #25
    Anaïs Nin
    “I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me”
    Anais Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

  • #26
    Anaïs Nin
    “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
    Anais Nin

  • #27
    Anaïs Nin
    “Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.”
    Anais Nin

  • #28
    Anaïs Nin
    “In chaos, there is fertility.”
    Anais Nin

  • #29
    Anaïs Nin
    “There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
    Anais Nin, Journals of Anais Nin Volume 3

  • #30
    Anaïs Nin
    “There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
    Anais Nin



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