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“She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.”

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.”

“she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.”

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”

“At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.”

Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love

Source: A Spy in the House of Love

“A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.”

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.”

Source: In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

“Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Source: Delta of Venus

“Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.”

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.”

Source: The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934: Vol. 1

“At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.”

Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love

Source: A Spy in the House of Love

“I walked into my own book, seeking peace.
It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.”

Anaïs Nin book House of Incest

Source: House of Incest

“If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.”

Variant: 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.

“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”

“I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.”

Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love

Variant: We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.
Source: A Spy in the House of Love

“There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned”

Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus

Variant: There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.
Source: Delta of Venus

“He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away.”

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams…”

Anaïs Nin book Under a Glass Bell

Source: Under a Glass Bell

“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”

“The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.”

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin