Quotes from Anais Nin

La vulgaridad proporciona el placer de profanar. Pero June no es un demonio. Es la vida el demonio que la posee y su coito es violento porque su voracidad de vida es enorme; ha de probar los sabores más amargos.

I haven't yet learned to call you by your first name, and Miss Nin sounds so stiff, like an invitation to tea.

When I look at the large green iron gate from my window it takes on the air of a prison gate. An unjust feeling, since I know I can leave the place whenever I want to, and since I know that human beings place upon an object, or a person, this responsibility of being the obstacle when the obstacle lies always within one's self.

Créeme, cuando hablo de vivir de acuerdo con los instintos, no es más que humo. Hay muchos instintos que deben ser reprimidos porque están descompuestos, podridos.

Worlds self-made and self-nourished are so full of ghosts and monsters.

Nevoia de a creÈ™te È™i de a tr?i intens e atât de puternic? în mine, încât nu-i pot rezista. Voi lucra, îmi voi iubi soÈ›ul, dar m? voi împlini.

En voyage, j'absorbe tout et l'ajoute à moi-même.

Wir sehen die Dinge nicht, wie sie sind. Wie sehen sie, wie wir sind.

Poetry is the description of an intangible state.

Sunt dou? moduri de a ajunge la mine, prin s?ruturi sau prin imagina?ie.

He was never dressed, but costumed to suit some mood of a new self. He was in disguise.

I cannot live without love. Love is at the root of my being.

The very composition of your blood, your inheritance, has without your knowing it perhaps saved you from problems and pains which most writers are obliged to suffer.

I never saw as clearly as with Artaud what the meaning of poetry is: it is an abstraction, to match allegorical patterns.

I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne; I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me.

La derrota no es más que una fase para mí. Debo conquistar, vivir.

Need of security and reassurance can cause criminal acts. What can be removed is the motivation.

Though the passivity of woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it, to run wild. Is it that which pushes me into lesbianism? [...] Do women act thus?

I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Herir y ser consciente de que se hiere, saber que es una necesidad, lo encuentro intolerable. No tengo la valentía de June. Lucho por evitarle a Hugo toda humillación.

There must be a publisher for everybody apparently.

For what always creates anxiety in me is the doubt of my own sanity. I always question myself: am I being over-sensitive, am I exaggerating? What I crave at this moment is to be where I am not cut off from the world, to find another thread of contact.

My desire wandered—I became all desire and warmth.

It was unreal because I live only in the depths. When I come to the surface for pleasure, I don't live. I live only in passion, pain, depths, darkness. But I try to breathe above of the deep ocean of sensation.