Anais Nin
Anais Nin
Anaïs Ninwas an essayist and memoirist born to Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba but lived most of her life in the United States where she became an established author. She wrote journals, novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1903
CityNanterre, France
CountryUnited States of America
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.
When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.
There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
Introspection is a devouring monster.
While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.
In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
all the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution ...
we cannot cure the evils of politics with politics ...
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.