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Anais Nin [1903-1977] American

Rank: 4
Poet (with poems), Essayist

Erotism, Feminism

Anaïs Nin was an essayist and memoirist born to Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba but lived most of her life in the United States where she became an established author.

Death, Dreams, Life, Love, Art, Courage, Friendship, Strength, Truth, Age, Brainy, Chance, Dad, Fear, Imagination, Inspirational, Knowledge, Morning, Relationship, Religion, Space, Time, Travel, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.	Dreams, Inspirational, Life, Love, Space	101
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.	Courage, Life	102
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.	Love	103
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.	Courage, Relationship, Strength	104
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?	Friendship, Love	105
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.	Religion	106
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.	Life	107
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.	Women	108
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.	Brainy	109
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.	Death	110
People living deeply have no fear of death.	Death, Fear, Life	111
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.	Art	112
Dreams are necessary to life.	Dreams	113
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.	Friendship	114
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.		115
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.	Imagination	116
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.	Age	117
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.	Dad, Time	118
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.	Travel	119
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.		120
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.	Chance, Death	121
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.		122
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.		123
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.	Dreams	124
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.	Morning	125
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.	Art	126
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.	Dreams	201
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.		202
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.		203
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.		204
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.	Love	205
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.		206
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.	Death	207
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.	Strength	208
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.		209
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.	Knowledge	210
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.	Truth	211
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.	Truth	212
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.		213
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.		214
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.		215

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