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
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through.
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.