Anaïs Nin

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[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

She only believed in intimacy and proximity, in confessions born in the darkness of a bedroom, in quarrels born of alcohol, in communions born of exhausting walks through the city.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

The romantic submits to life, the classicist dominates it.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

But wisdom is a swifter way of reaching death. I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

He likes order. He says all great artists like order.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

He has begun to turn his rich experience into writing, to taste more deeply all that he has lived.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

She wanted as much to escape from herself as I wanted to inhabit her body, become her.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

I have the acrid taste of rebellion on my lips.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

The idea of deserving love. And then watching love being given to people who did nothing to deserve it.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

The theatre, for him, is a place to shout pain, anger, hatred, to enact the violence in us. The most violent life can burst from terror and death.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

I lived out my dreams. The dreams were only a beginning. They indicated the path to follow.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

I can only tell you that my surroundings are “me”. Everything is me, because I have rejected all conventions, the opinion of the world, all its laws.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

The territory of woman is that which lies untouched by the direct desire of man. Man attacks the vital center. Woman fills out the circumference.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, stained, crumpled.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

I want to live only for ecstasy. Small doses, moderate loves, all half-shades, leave me cold.

[Anaïs Nin @lilAnaisNin]

“I could have bought you the book store and handed it to you, and it would be nothing.”