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
He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
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.
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.
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.