The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. Anais Nin More Quotes by Anais Nin More Quotes From Anais Nin Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots. Anais Nin advantage roots firsts The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Anais Nin used body giving I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored. Anais Nin ignored writing book If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth. Anais Nin shifting truth moving One may gain one truth at the expense of another. Anais Nin gains truth may I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived. Anais Nin records needed writing We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream. Anais Nin influence dream reality Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. Anais Nin illusion paradise travel The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses. Anais Nin passion blessed travel For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings. Anais Nin powerful giving art Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping. Anais Nin venice sound together Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons. Anais Nin self monsters world We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public. Anais Nin minorities alive research When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing. Anais Nin color fire writing People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying. Anais Nin indulge-in self people To love and to labor is the sum of living. Anais Nin labor In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection. Anais Nin possibility creation perfection gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams. Anais Nin dreamer gold dream I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another. Anais Nin one-direction joy giving In my dreams I sleep with everybody. Anais Nin dream sleep
