Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINMan can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
More Anais Nin Quotes
-
-
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
ANAIS NIN -
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
ANAIS NIN -
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
ANAIS NIN -
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAIS NIN -
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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 -
Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
ANAIS NIN -
We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
ANAIS NIN -
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
ANAIS NIN -
Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
ANAIS NIN -
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
ANAIS NIN -
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
ANAIS NIN -
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NIN -
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
ANAIS NIN -
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NIN







