Quote

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

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
Image
Possible
Face
Faces
Courted
Found
Imprint
Men
Screen
Screens
Fantasy

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
Anais Nin
Image
I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From A Journal of Love The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1938 For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.
Anais Nin
Image
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
Anais Nin
Image
she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
Anais Nin
Image
I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
Anais Nin
Image
The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.
Anais Nin
Image
If you can't create, you destroy.
Anais Nin
Image
You fall in love with people's minds.
Anais Nin
Image
Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
Anais Nin
Image
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
Anais Nin
Image
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
Image
But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.
Anais Nin
Image
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
Anais Nin
Image
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
Anais Nin
Image
I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
Anais Nin
Image
Solitude may rust your words.
Anais Nin
Image
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin
Image
To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
Anais Nin
Image
Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
Anais Nin
Image
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
Anais Nin