Anaïs Nin was a French-born writer of novels and short stories of Cuban descent. His works showed the influence of surrealism and Otto Rank's psychoanalysis. He spent his childhood in Spain and Cuba, about 16 years in Paris (1924-1940) and the rest of his life in the United States, where he decided to publish his works..
From adolescence until her death, Anaïs wrote diaries, which she published while she was alive, detailing her personal relationships and her thoughts. He even described his marriages and romances, among which he highlighted those he had with Otto Rank and with the writer Henry Miller.
He also wrote essays, short stories, exotic texts, critical studies, and various novels. His works include Henry and June, Fire birds Y Venus Delta.
To better understand her way of thinking, we have made this list of phrases by Anaïs Nin, in which you can appreciate her thoughts about life in general, about love, writers, philosophical ideas, women and other matters..
-Good things happen to those who hurry.
-Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are less like us.
-The joy of small things is all we have to combat the tragedy of life.
-Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some degree, protects you from age.
-The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
-We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-I will not adjust to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
-Shame is the lie that someone told you about you.
-We travel, some forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
-What I love the most is feeling how I travel through the stream of life.
-Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
-What we call destiny is actually our character and character can be altered.
-I am not interested in an ordinary life. I am looking for the most exciting moments. I agree with the surrealists, who seek the wonderful.
-I reserve the right to love different people at the same time and to change my prince frequently.
-Dreams are necessary to live.
-Writers don't live one life, they live two. There is living and then there is writing.
-Launch your dreams into space like a kite, and you don't know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
-The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
-We write to savor life twice, in the moment and in hindsight.
-The only abnormality is the inability to live.
-People who live deeply are not afraid of death.
-Luxury is not a necessity for me, but beauty and good things are..
-You cannot save people. You can only love them.
-There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality through imagination, as I try to do.
-I postpone death for life, for suffering, for error, for risking, for giving, for losing.
-When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
-Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. He dies of blindness, mistakes and betrayals. He dies of disease and scars; die of fatigue.
-Life is only truly known to those who suffer, lose, resist adversity, and stumble from defeat to defeat..
-The possession of knowledge does not kill the capacity for wonder or mystery. There is always more mystery.
-The reality does not impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy and when ordinary life chains me, I escape one way or another. No more walls.
-My ideas do not usually come writing at my table, but in the middle of life.
-In chaos there is fertility.
-You can't find love, he finds you. It has to do a bit with destiny, faith and what is written in the stars.
-When one is pretending, the whole body rebels.
-There is no great cosmic meaning for everyone, there is only the meaning that each one of us gives to our life, an individual meaning, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
-I, with a deep instinct, choose a man who draws my strength, who makes great demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
-Do not look for the why, in love there is no why, there is no reason, there is no explanation, there are no solutions.
-I think that one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
-Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
-The truth is something that cannot be said in a few words. Those who simplify the universe, only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
-The deeply lived personal life always expands on truths beyond itself..
-Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies.
-I hate men who are afraid of women's strengths.
-I want to make my own discoveries, penetrate the evil that attracts me.
-How wrong is it for a woman to expect a man to build the world that she wants, instead of creating it herself.
-When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a dogma, we become automatons. We stop growing.
-If I love you, that means we share the same fantasies, the same crazy things.
-There are two ways to reach me; the path of kisses and the path of imagination. But there is a hierarchy; kisses alone don't work.
-Our love was like two long shadows that hopelessly kiss reality.
-Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states that we have to go through. What people fail is that they want to choose a state and stay in it. That's a kind of death.
-Every contact with a human being is so strange, so precious, one should preserve it.
-I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
-I write emotional algebra.
-When you get intoxicated by a feeling, no matter what it is, you stop seeing reality or ugliness.
-I am a passionate person who only understands life lyrically, musically, I can understand that feelings are much stronger than reason.
-I don't know where my memory wants to go today.
-Water has always made me think of my first break with my roots.
-My first trip was also the breaking of a bridge, a bridge with Europe and with my father.
-I wanted to dramatize women's conflicts, I didn't know how aware I was of them then.
-Women's conflicts unfold on their own terms, not by imitating men.
-Women finding their own language and articulating their own feelings. Thus discovering their own perception.
-I need ecstasy. I am neurotic in the sense that I live in my world.
-Abnormal pleasure overrides the taste for normal.
-The urge to grow and live intensely is so compelling in me that it is impossible for me to resist it.
-I have risked suffering the greatest injury, the most dangerous rivalry.
-There are two ways to get to me, through kisses or imagination. But there is a hierarchy; kisses alone are not enough. (Henry and June).
-It is no wonder that I observe his life and realize that mine will never resemble his, because the thought holds mine. (Henry and June).
-Everything in me is either adoration and passion, or pity and understanding. I rarely hate, although when I do, I hate atrociously. (Henry and June).
-And the day came when the risk of being pressed into a bulb was more painful than the risk of blooming..
-Each friend represents a world within us, a world that was probably not born until they arrived..
-We do not grow chronologically. Sometimes we grow in one dimension and not another, unevenly. We grow partially.
-We are relative. We are mature in one kingdom and childish in another. The past, present and future mix and push us backwards, forwards or fixes us in the present.
-We are made of layers, of cells, of constellations.
-I'm alone, but I don't need just anyone. I don't know why, but some people fill in the empty spaces while others emphasize my loneliness. Actually, the ones that satisfy me are the ones that let me live with the idea I have of them.
-I must be a mermaid, I am not afraid of the deep, but I am afraid of leading a shallow life.
-In me, there are always at least two women. A desperate one and a wild one. One that feels like she's drowning and one that's ready to go on stage.
-You live this way, protected, in a delicate world, and you think you are living. Then you read a book or travel and discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating.
-Monotony, boredom, death. Many live like this, or die like this, without knowing it. They work in offices, drive cars, walk with their families, raise their children. And suddenly something happens that moves them, wakes them up and saves them from death.
-From the coworker who betrayed you to the nosy sister-in-law, you are responsible for how you react to people and events in your life..
-You can give negative power to your life or you can be happy. Take control and choose to focus on what really matters.
-If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry writing or sing writing, then do not write, because it will not be of use to our culture.
-I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I wake up. Life requires an effort that I cannot bear.
-I know that I am dead. The moment I scream a phrase, my sincerity dies, it becomes a lie whose coldness freezes me.
-I am irrevocably alone, but I am afraid that my loneliness will be broken and that I will cease to be the person who governs my universe..
-I don't want to be a leader. I refuse to be.
-We are like sculptors, carving in others the image we seek, need, love or desire, sometimes against reality, against the good of others. In the end, it's always a disappointment.
-What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, bury it in a place where it never gets lost?
-Knowing that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not have to scare us, because it means that we are capable of changing destiny.
-I cried last night. I cried because the process by which I became a woman was painful. I cried because I was no longer a child with blind childish faith. I cried because my eyes were opened to see reality.
-I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension.
-Not every day I am in what I call a state of grace, I have days of enlightenment and fever, I have days when the music in my head stops.
-On my bad days, I fix stockings, can fruit, polish furniture. But while doing this I feel like I'm not living.
-Had I not created my own world, without a doubt I would have died in someone else's.
-I am pleased with my transformations. I look calm and consistent, but very few know how many women are in me.
-I don't want to become normal, average, standard. I just want to get stronger, braver to live my life to the fullest, to enjoy more, to experience more.
-Do you know what I would say to someone who asked me for a description of myself without warning? This: ?? !! Because my life is an eternal question mark ... but I also have a habit of being surprised.
-I think all those legends about people who transform into animals at night were invented by men who saw women, idealized and revered creatures, transform into animals at night and believed them to be demonic..
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