Quotes from Anais Nin
To love and to labor is the sum of living.
- Anais Nin
... only love begets love.
- Anais Nin
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
- Anais Nin
America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.
- Anais 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
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
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
- Anais Nin
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
- Anais Nin
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
- Anais Nin
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
- Anais Nin