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55 Anais Nin Quotes That Will Teach You About Life And Love
“We write to taste life twice: in the moment and retrospection.” – Anais Nin
Nowadays finding romantic and erotic kinds of books and novels written by female authors is easy. But in the late ’90s, female erotica writers were rare. Anais Nin was glorified as one of the boldest writers to project both masculine and feminine characters. Without any discomfort of being a sensual writer, she published many books. Anais Nin Quotes and Sayings will teach you about life, love, and dreams.
Angela Anais Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell is better known as Anais Nin in short. She was an essayist, novelist, diarist, and writer of short stories and erotica. She was also a composer by profession and a Cuban Classical Singer. She found her passion in writing when she was eleven years old.
She was fluent in English both orally and in writing but she held onto her French roots. Nin was daring who lived with her moral code, wrote about her adventures, and then published her memoir for the world to read. She has published more than 30 books of which eight volumes were about her personal life. Anais Nin even acted in some movies like Ritual in Transfigured Time. At the age of 73, she died of cervical cancer. Today we have come up with the daring woman Anais Nin Quotes and Sayings which will inspire and motivate you.
Anais Nin Quotes
1. “Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.” – Anais Nin
2. “Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.” – Anais Nin
3. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anais Nin
4. “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anais Nin
5. “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” – Anais Nin

6. “When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.” – Anais Nin
7. “Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another.” – Anais Nin
8. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
9. “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.” – Anais Nin
10. “We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art ― we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.” – Anais Nin

Anais Nin Quotes
11. “Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.” – Anais Nin
12. “I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.” – Anais Nin
13. “Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.” – Anais Nin
14. “We are never trapped unless we choose to be.” – Anais Nin
15. “Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.” – Anais Nin

16. “Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.” – Anais Nin
17. “I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.” – Anais Nin
18. “One word I would banish from the dictionary is ‘escape.’ Just banish that and you’ll be fine.” – Anais Nin
19. “There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination.” – Anais Nin
20. “If you limit yourself only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.” – Anais Nin

Best Anais Nin Quotes
21. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anais Nin
22. “My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.” – Anais Nin
23. “Good things happen to those who hustle.” – Anais Nin
24. “When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.” – Anais Nin
25. “Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.” – Anais Nin
Anais Nin Quotes on Love
26. “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.” – Anais Nin
27. “The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.” – Anais Nin
28. “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.” – Anais Nin
29. “Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” – Anais Nin
30. “I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.” – Anais Nin
31. “What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?” – Anais Nin
32. “I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.” – Anais Nin
33. “You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.” – Anais Nin

Anais Nin Quotes on Love
34. “If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.” – Anais Nin
35. “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.” – Anais Nin
36. “Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.” – Anais Nin
37. “Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.” – Anais Nin
38. “He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.” – Anais Nin
39. “Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.” – Anais Nin
40. “The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.” – Anais Nin
Anais Nin Quotes on Life
41. “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
42. “Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin
43. “I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.” – Anais Nin
44. “Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.” – Anais Nin
45. “I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” – Anais Nin
46. “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” – Anais Nin
47. “People living deeply have no fear of death.” – Anais Nin
48. “The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” – Anais Nin

Anais Nin Quotes on Life
49. “Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life.” – Anais Nin
50. “Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.” – Anais Nin
51. “I want to make my own discoveries… penetrate the evil which attracts me.” – Anais Nin
52. “Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.” – Anais Nin
53. “I have no brakes on…analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.” – Anais Nin
54. “I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.” – Anais Nin
55. “Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.” – Anais Nin
If you haven’t read any of Anais Nin’s books, you can start with the Delta of Venus book. If you don’t have the patience to read books then you can watch Delta Of Venus from Amazon Prime. The story is about the struggling American writer, her chaos, and the affair which happened during World War II. Have a great movie time!
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