Quotes from Anais Nin
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
- Anais Nin
This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.
- Anais Nin
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
- Anais Nin
I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
- Anais Nin
Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
- Anais Nin
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
- Anais Nin
Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
- Anais Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais 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.
- Anais Nin
In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
- Anais Nin
Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
- Anais Nin
She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.
- Anais Nin