I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me. Anais Nin More Quotes by Anais Nin More Quotes From Anais Nin To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right. Anais Nin realization animal world Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them. Anais Nin turns and-love house Hollywood is a mirage factory. Anais Nin mirages factories hollywood Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life. Anais Nin heart Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone. Anais Nin burden guilt bears The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness. Anais Nin eye responsibility writing I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1938 For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration. Anais Nin stars fire adventure I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father. Anais Nin husband believe father Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death. Anais Nin rehearsal airports separation the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing. Anais Nin drawing cities beautiful I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry. Anais Nin organization attitude believe Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus. Anais Nin sunset flower blood I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away. Anais Nin power love-you people Memory is a great betrayer. Anais Nin memories 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. Anais Nin shackles thirsty letting-go The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted. Anais Nin disregarded unconscious ifs Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous. Anais Nin organization lying reality This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams. Anais Nin eye dream men If you can't create, you destroy. Anais Nin creativity destruction ifs atrophy of feeling creates criminals. Anais Nin criminals crime feelings
