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
It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.
Ordinary life does not interest me.
The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
In chaos, there is fertility.
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
Jazz is the music of the body.
We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.