Quote

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

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
Transformation
Quiet
Pleasure
Women
Look
Looks
Take
Transformations
Many
Consistent

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
Anais Nin
Image
Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
Anais Nin
Image
Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
Anais Nin
Image
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
Image
Adolescence is like cactus.
Anais Nin
Image
I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
Anais Nin
Image
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Anais Nin
Image
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
Anais Nin
Image
You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
Anais Nin
Image
Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
Anais Nin
Image
I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.
Anais Nin
Image
I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.
Anais Nin
Image
I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.
Anais Nin
Image
I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
Anais Nin
Image
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
Anais Nin
Image
For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.
Anais Nin
Image
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
Anais Nin
Image
We 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.
Anais Nin
Image
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Anais Nin
Image
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
Anais Nin