Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity. Anais Nin More Quotes by Anais Nin More Quotes From Anais Nin You live out the confusions until they become clear. Anais Nin clear confusion 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 inspirational love life Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. Anais Nin enchantment suffering stories Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living. Anais Nin illumination space tree I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself. Anais Nin ecstasy ordinary-world tempo I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often. Anais Nin different-peoples different people With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before. Anais Nin flames eye men When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with. Anais Nin ethics honesty bears I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. Anais Nin moving-on life death We have been poisoned by fairy tales. Anais Nin tales fairy-tale marriage It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. Anais Nin inspirational life art The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world. Anais Nin lenses self world I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness. Anais Nin dream night book Dreams are necessary to life. Anais Nin dream happiness life We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anais Nin inspirational funny travel Everything but happiness is neurosis. Anais Nin neurosis I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. Anais Nin stars imagination hair I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did. Anais Nin falling-in-love hate sleep The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. Anais Nin moving-on swimming pain If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine. Anais Nin laughter wine fall