
Anais Nin ...because in both of us there's always movement, renewal, surprises. I have never known stagnation. Not even introspection has been a still experience...

Anais Nin For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.

Anais Nin When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.

Anais Nin Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

Anais Nin 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.

Anais Nin The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

Anais Nin Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Anais Nin If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anais Nin Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, scenes, foreign travel, new faces, stories, dreams, music, dancing, opium, wine.

Anais Nin You will make mistakes. And they are right too.

Anais Nin Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

Anais Nin Do not seek the because -in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Anais Nin It is not madness. It is an effort to transcend the rigidities and the patterns made by the rational mind.

Anais Nin i go in to come out.















