Quote

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

Anais Nin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Neuilly
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
Writes
Create
Live
Writing
Believe
World

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
Anais Nin
Image
Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
Anais Nin
Image
In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.
Anais Nin
Image
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
Anais Nin
Image
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.
Anais Nin
Image
Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
Anais Nin
Image
One 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.
Anais Nin
Image
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin
Image
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
Anais Nin
Image
I love your silences, they are like mine.
Anais Nin
Image
We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.
Anais Nin
Image
They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.
Anais Nin
Image
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.
Anais Nin
Image
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
Anais Nin
Image
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
Anais Nin
Image
She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.
Anais Nin
Image
Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
Anais Nin
Image
The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
Anais Nin
Image
One handles truths like dynamite.
Anais Nin
Image
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
Anais Nin