I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. Anais Nin More Quotes by Anais Nin More Quotes From Anais Nin Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. Anais Nin effort I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits Anais Nin unconventionalwantaverage Pain is something to master, not to wallow in. Anais Nin painmasters Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. Anais Nin yearningsoulsuffering If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses Anais Nin madnesslove-youmean 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. Anais Nin failurechangelife People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin inspiringlifedeath Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem. Anais Nin formseems I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. Anais Nin letting-golovelife I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them. Anais Nin valentines-dayromantic-lovewant I don't wish power, only art -art and passion. Anais Nin passionwishart We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us. Anais Nin rolesjudgingplay Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin inspirationallovefriendship The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love. Anais Nin understandingwisdomlove Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. Anais Nin being-sadhumanitythinking The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth. Anais Nin reallyingchildren What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life. Anais Nin fusionpassionsensual I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it. Anais Nin hobbiesi-can I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life. Anais Nin revolutionhealingbelieve Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. Anais Nin creatingbreak-uppeople
