12 beautiful quotes by Anaïs Nin. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Anaïs Nin
“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, o...
“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
“We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.”
anaïs nin
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out ...
“I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.”
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”
“I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.”
“Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer ...
“I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also ha...
“The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive...
