28 Best Quotes By Anais Nin | 2Quotes
Anaïs Nin (Spanish pronunciation: [anaˈiz ˈnin]; 21 February 1903 – 14 January 1977), born Angela Anais Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, was a French-born author of Spanish, Cuban, and Danish descent who became famous for her published journals, which span more than sixty years, and for her erotica.
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Quotes by Anais Nin
1. We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
– Anaïs Nin
2. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
– Anais Nin
3. Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
– Anaïs Nin
4. Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments.
– Anaïs Nin
5. Dreams are necessary to life.
– Anais Nin
6. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
– Anais Nin
7. We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
– Anaïs Nin
8. How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
– Anaïs Nin
9. I love your silences, they are like mine.
– Anaïs Nin
10. Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
– Anaïs Nin
11. The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
– Anaïs Nin
12. You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
– Anaïs Nin
13. I write emotional algebra.
– Anaïs Nin
14. The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
– Anaïs Nin
15. People living deeply have no fear of death.
– Anais Nin
16. 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
17. You cannot save people. You can only love them.
– Anais Nin
18. Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
– Anais Nin
19. Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
– Anais Nin
20. The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
– Anais Nin
21. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
– Anais Nin
22. I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
– Anais Nin
23. Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
– Anaïs Nin
24. “Our age has need of violence,” he writes. And he is violence.
– Anaïs Nin
25. Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
– Anais Nin
26. We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.
– Anais Nin
27. He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
– Anaïs Nin
28. We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
– Anais Nin
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