Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) It is not the failed relationships which influence our life — they influence our death.
Anaïs Nin On Friends
Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) Each friend represents a world in us possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anaïs Nin On Maturity
Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) If you intensify and complete your subjective emotions, visions, you see their relation to others’ emotions. It is not a question of choosing between them, one at the cost of another, but a matter of completion, of inclusion, an encompassing, unifying, and integrating which makes maturity.
Anaïs Nin On Love
Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) When you are highly sensitized to love, when you vibrate deeply, sexually, bodily, ...the being is enlarged, its capacity highly increased.
Anaïs Nin On Dreams
Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anaïs Nin On The Artist’s Task
Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) …It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar, unwilling to explore the unfamiliar. In science, we respect the research worker. In literature, we should not always read the books blessed by the majority. …The suppression of inner patterns in favor of …
Anaïs Nin On Writing
Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Anaïs Nin On Artists
Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) For me the artist simple means one who can transform ordinary life into a beautiful creation, with his craft. But I did not mean creation strictly applied only to the arts. I meant creation in life, the creation of a child, a garden, a house, a …