More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.
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.
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
