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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
We see things as we are, not as they are...
— Anais Nin
Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.
— Anais Nin
I dreamed you, I wished for your existence.
— Anais Nin
In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.
— 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
I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled.
— 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
Adolescence is like cactus.
— 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 period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
— 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
I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
— 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 must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
— Anais Nin
Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.
— 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
I never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think pornography has added to our sensual life.
— 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
Djuna concerned only with the longitude, and latitude and altitude of human beings in relation to each other.
— Anais Nin
The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
— 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
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
— 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
I am very near to madness. I imagine my isolation, and I go mad inside, a delirium of doubts and fears.
— Anais Nin
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
— Anais Nin
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
— Anais Nin
You fall in love with people's minds.
— 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
The relief of opening one's hand and letting go was immense. But soon after, I tightened again. A desire for revenge, a strange revenge.
— Anais Nin
In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
— Anais Nin
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man's cult of beauty.
— Anais Nin
Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
— Anais Nin
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
— Anais Nin
Jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
— Anais Nin
Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.
— Anais Nin
Well I bet the Roman's wanted to build Rome in a day but look how well that turned out,
— Anais Torres
He observed confusion and chaos, which I call living by one's emotions instead of one's mind.
— Anais Nin
Human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's self.
— 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
When a person does aggravate like a plaguing itch, acceptance is no matter.
— Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana
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
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
— 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
The unknown is my compass
— Anais Nin
One handles truths like dynamite.
— Anais Nin
Only love begets love.
— Anais Nin
He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.
— 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
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
— Anais Nin
This world today makes one by the day a recluse
— Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana
In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
— Anais Nin
Destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
— 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
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
— 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
Will you come down and kiss me good night?
— Anais Nin