Anaïs Nin Quotes

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Her hair was full of lights

...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.

She abandoned herself to his whim, thinking it was to be an orgy of eyes and hands only.

[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.

Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.

Even when they did not look at each other or speak to each other, he could feel a powerful current between them.

He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.

Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.

Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors

At five o'clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.