Quotes by Anais Nin

Anais Nin

Anais Nin

French-born American Novelist, Dancer

Lived from: 1903 - 1977

Category: Artists | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 21 february 1903 Died: 14 january 1977

  • It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
  • Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
  • Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

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  • Dreams are necessary to life.
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  • Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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  • A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked…
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  • And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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  • 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.
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  • Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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  • Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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  • Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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  • Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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  • Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
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  • How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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  • I love your silences, they are like mine.
    Source: Under a Glass Bell (1944)
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  • I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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  • I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
    Source: The Diary Of Anais Nin vol. 2
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  • I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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  • I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
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  • I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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  • If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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