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Anaïs Nin

Anaes Nin IPA: [ana'ies nin] (born Angela Anaes Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell) (February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977) was a Cuban-French author who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death. Nin is also famous for her erotica writing.

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Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

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Dreams are necessary to life.

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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.

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked

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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.

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.

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

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

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The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

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

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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.

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