Anais NinI only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.371DeathLife
Anais NinWhen you possess light within, you see it externally.372Reflection
Anais NinCreation which cannot express itself becomes madness. ✨ Fire. Diary entries, October 18, 1936.361Truth
Anais NinThe leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.361Humanity
Anais NinKeeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.362Life
Anais NinThe richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.362Philosophy
Anais NinWhat can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, … ▶351Humor
Anais NinAt sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.373Time
Anais NinAdolescence is like cactus.351Reading
Anais NinLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ✨ Personal Quotes/ Biography. www.imdb.com.351Life
Anais NinNot afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, wh… ▶373Humanity
Anais NinYou live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. ✨ The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934). Book by Anais Nin, 1969.362LifeReading
Anais NinThe child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father become… ▶351DeathHumanity
Anais NinWhen I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.352Thought
Anais NinThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.341Time
Anais NinInstead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse’s, he retired behind … ▶374Politics
Anais NinWhat everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.352LifeLove
Anais NinStories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.364Death
Anais NinWe do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.364Philosophy
Anais NinHe does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.342Sadness
Anais NinAll those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished. ✨ Under a Glass Bell. Book by Anais Nin, 1944.331Reading
Anais NinAt first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language,… ▶342Reading
Anais NinWhen I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.353Time
Anais NinOur culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.342Life
Anais NinBeware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky331Death
Anais NinDon't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. ✨ Personal Quotes/ Biography. www.imdb.com.342Reflection
Anais NinThe final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned. 354ReadingTime
Anais NinGood things happen to those who hustle.365Humanity
Anais NinLove never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies o… ▶376DeathLove
Anais NinSecrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.321Reading
