Anaïs Nin Quotes

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

~ Anaïs Nin

Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.

~ Anaïs Nin

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.

~ Anaïs Nin

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.

~ Anaïs Nin

I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.

~ Anaïs Nin

In chaos, there is fertility.

~ Anaïs Nin

When you trust, you are tender and delicate, but when you doubt, you are dangerous and destructive

~ Anaïs Nin

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

~ Anaïs Nin

1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to Black Spring.3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.4) Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!5) When you can't create you can work.6) Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.7) Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.8) Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure

~ Henry Miller