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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need. — Anais Nin

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. — Anais Nin

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work. — Anais Nin

Our love lives because I live. — Anais Nin

We see things as we are, not as they are... — Anais Nin

We see things the way we are, not the way they are. — Anais Nin

I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. — Anais Nin

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. — Anais Nin

It's hard to let go of something you never really had but, even harder when you know it's everything you ever wanted, — Anais Torres

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge. — Anais Nin

I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled. — Anais Nin

It is hard for me to believe in continuous, sustained happiness, just as it is hard for me to believe in love. — Anais Nin

Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy. — Anais Nin

What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you? — Anais Nin

I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds. — Anais Nin

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses. — Anais Nin

America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others. — Anais Nin

We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics ... — Anais Nin

Adolescence is like cactus. — Anais Nin

The river of life divides into two branches: being and formulating. — Anais Nin

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself. — Anais Nin

You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz. — Anais Nin

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure. — Anais Nin

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium. — Anais Nin

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt. — Anais Nin

I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all. — Anais Nin

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood. — Anais Nin

Notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite. — Anais Nin

She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I don't want to know, I only want to love her. — Anais Nin

I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father. — Anais Nin

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it. — Anais Nin

Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room. — Anais Nin

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. — Anais Nin

The inner and poetic illumination of his life came from me. — Anais Nin

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry. — Anais Nin

When you possess light within, you see it externally. — Anais Nin

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything. — Anais Nin

Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality. — Anais Nin

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. — Anais Nin

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. — Anais Nin

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness. — Anais Nin

I never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think pornography has added to our sensual life. — Anais Nin

They clutch and cling and howl when I leave them, but how badly they love. — Anais Nin

Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. — Anais Nin

My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked. — Anais Nin

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. — Anais Nin

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest. — Anais Nin

Will you come down and kiss me good night? — Anais Nin

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. — Anais Nin

You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength. — Anais Nin

I am very near to madness. I imagine my isolation, and I go mad inside, a delirium of doubts and fears. — Anais Nin

I have forgotten my mask and my face was in it. Man — Anais Nin

Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation ... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance. — Anais Nin

Tonight I am all in flames. — Anais Nin

We have been poisoned by fairy tales. — Anais Nin

Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws. — Anais Nin

Golconda remained a city where the wind was like velvet, where the sun was made of radium, and the sea as warm as a mother's womb. — Anais Nin

All I wanted was humor and wisdom. — Anais Nin

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. — Anais Nin

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique. — Anais Nin

Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror. — Anais Nin

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss. — Anais Nin

The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well. — Anais Nin

Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence. — Anais Nin

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies. — Anais Nin

I do love through trial and error, in fact I confess I would die for this beastly terror — Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana

In my dreams I sleep with everybody. — Anais Nin

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat. — Anais Nin

When a person does aggravate like a plaguing itch, acceptance is no matter. — Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. — Anais Nin

Gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams. — Anais Nin

We are more severe judges of our own acts ... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts. — Anais Nin

One handles truths like dynamite. — Anais Nin

Sexual intercourse ... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast. — Anais Nin

Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers. — Anais Nin

Only love begets love. — Anais Nin

Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals. — Anais Nin

This world today makes one by the day a recluse — Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana

We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds. — Anais Nin

In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict. — Anais Nin

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. — Anais Nin

Destruction is ultimately self-destruction. — Anais Nin

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. — Anais Nin

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. — Anais Nin

The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted. — Anais Nin

He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures. — Anais Nin

The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love. — Anais Nin

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. — Anais Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. — Anais Nin

The unknown is my compass — Anais Nin

He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals. — Anais Nin

Was it not an act of love to impersonate the loved one? — Anais Nin

To escape him she had run away to the end of the world. To be free of him she had run away to places where he never went. — Anais Nin

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living. — Anais Nin

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity. — Anais Nin

You cannot save people. You can only love them. — Anais Nin

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken. — Anais Nin

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison. — Anais Nin

Djuna concerned only with the longitude, and latitude and altitude of human beings in relation to each other. — Anais Nin