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Anaïs Nin Quotes: "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "People living deeply have no fear of death."

People living deeply have no fear of death.




Anaïs Nin Quotes: "I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.




Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me."

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.




Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions."

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often."

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.




Anaïs Nin Quotes: "The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.




Anaïs Nin Quotes: "I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it."

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved."

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "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."

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.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself."

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them."

I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones."

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Dreams are necessary to life."

Dreams are necessary to life.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice."

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . ."

I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "In chaos, there is fertility."

In chaos, there is fertility.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again."

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work."

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark."

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime."

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself."

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself."

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Societies in decline have no use for visionaries."

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met."

Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through."

There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing."

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive."

There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss."

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished."

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously."

I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life."

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy."

They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion."

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt."

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization."

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.



Anaïs Nin Quotes: "This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun."

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.