Quote

Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.

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
York
High
Action
Spirit
Poles
Two
Magnetic
Life
Tension
Paris
Senses

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin
Image
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais Nin
Image
The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.
Anais Nin
Image
New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
Anais Nin
Image
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
Anais Nin
Image
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
Anais Nin
Image
notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
Anais Nin
Image
I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.
Anais Nin
Image
I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
Anais Nin
Image
To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
Anais Nin
Image
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
Anais Nin
Image
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
Anais Nin
Image
To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.
Anais Nin
Image
There 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.
Anais Nin
Image
We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.
Anais Nin
Image
I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
Anais Nin
Image
The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
Anais Nin
Image
The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
Anais Nin
Image
At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.
Anais Nin
Image
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
Anais Nin