How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NINI’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
More Anais Nin Quotes
-
-
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
ANAIS NIN -
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
ANAIS NIN -
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
ANAIS NIN -
Dreams are necessary to life.
ANAIS NIN -
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NIN -
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
ANAIS NIN -
I love your silences, they are like mine.
ANAIS NIN -
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
ANAIS NIN -
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAIS NIN -
We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
ANAIS NIN -
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NIN -
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
ANAIS NIN -
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
ANAIS NIN -
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
ANAIS NIN -
If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
ANAIS NIN