Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anaïs Nin More Quotes by Anaïs Nin More Quotes From Anaïs Nin Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm. Anaïs Nin 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. Anaïs Nin 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. Anaïs Nin Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. Anaïs Nin 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. Anaïs Nin We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. Anaïs Nin We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. Anaïs Nin 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. Anaïs Nin A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked Anaïs Nin 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. Anaïs Nin The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. Anaïs Nin Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anaïs Nin I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles. Anaïs Nin Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. Anaïs Nin And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anaïs Nin 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. Anaïs Nin Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Anaïs Nin Dreams are necessary to life. Anaïs Nin I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding. Anaïs Nin
