Quotes by
Anais Nin |
1903-1977 , French writer
French-Cuban-American author renowned for her introspective diaries, which spanned over 60 years and explored themes of art, love, eroticism and identity. A pioneer of modern feminist literature, she also wrote erotic fiction, including Delta of Venus. Nin's relationships with literary figures like Henry Miller deeply influenced her work. | 20 quotes | 523 visits |
Quotations
| • | We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. 2 |
| • | The only perversion is the incapacity to love. 2 |
| • | Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity. 2 |
| • | Life shrinks or expands according to our courage. 2 |
| • | The worst moment for my patients was when they discovered that they were masters of their own fate. It was no longer a question of good or bad luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they despaired. 1 |
| • | Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life. 1 |
| • | How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. 1 |
| • | The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love. 1 |
| • | The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. 1 |
| • | Everything but happiness is neurosis. 1 |
| • | Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh without destroying that moment. 1 |
| • | Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. |
| • | I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically. |
| • | You cannot save people. You can only love them. |
| • | I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. |
| • | We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection. |
| • | 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. |
| • | I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day. |
| • | The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive. |
| • | Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection. |
