If you can't create, you destroy. Anais Nin More Quotes by Anais Nin More Quotes From Anais Nin The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves. Anais Nin love-ismenlife The dream has to be translated into reality. Anais Nin dreamreality The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure. Anais Nin enclosureone-womanmen destruction is ultimately self-destruction. Anais Nin self-destructiondestructionself The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. Anais Nin symbolicunityenough The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine. Anais Nin laughterdreamsex If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. Anais Nin feverhappinessknowledge Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her. Anais Nin doeforgetneeds My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. Anais Nin writinglifeideas Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity. Anais Nin hatemenart The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. Anais Nin elementschoicesartist The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned. Anais Nin journeywritingbook Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. Anais Nin balancelonelinessart Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky Anais Nin rebuttalrejectionsky perhaps the only magician we have is the artist. Anais Nin magicianartist He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. Anais Nin addictiondrugdoe The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelation of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might learn as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle against diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end, in our cursedly repercussive being. Anais Nin painstrugglememories Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. Anais Nin expansiontruthreality When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects. Anais Nin pressureorderworld 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. Anais Nin marriagelovelife
