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
Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.