Games
All emojis
New
Quotes
Home
»
Quote
»
Anaïs Nin
Quotes
„It was a misunderstanding to stress the dream like quality of the novels. What I meant to stress was the interrelation between dream and life, between dream and action.“
„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.“
„Ecstasy is the moment of exaltation from wholeness!“
„I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.“
„I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.“
„Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one’s self from enslavement by the earth.“
„The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.“
„He left me at my hotel at 3:00 AM murmuring: “You’re marvelous.”“
„I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.“
„For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.“
„The necessity for fiction was probably born of the problem of taboo on certain revelations. It was not only a need of the imagination but an answer to the limitations placed on portrayal of others.“
„You are like a person who consumes herself in love and giving and does not know the miracles that are born of this.“
„Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.“
„The dream has to be translated into reality.“
„Love reduces the complexity of living.“
„In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.“
„Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life.“
„The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.“
„Electric flesh-arrows traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.“
„Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.“
1
2
…
13
14
>