01UndatedWe 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 / quote ↗
02UndatedI postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
03UndatedI disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
04UndatedShe lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
05Undatedlife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
06UndatedThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
08UndatedWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
10UndatedThere are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
11UndatedWe are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
12UndatedOne discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
13UndatedWhat can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
16UndatedBut my faith seems naive, at least today. Maybe tomorrow I can believe again.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
18UndatedI'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
19UndatedA voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in me with eternal resonance, a voice rusty with the sound of curses and the hoarse cries that issue from the delta in the last paroxysm of orgasm.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
20UndatedAt first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
21UndatedThe man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
23UndatedThe role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
24UndatedIf you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.Anaïs Nin / quote ↗
