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“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.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

“The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.”

July 1932 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ps_DtS_PFb4C&q=%22The+basis+of+insincerity+is+the+idealized+image+we+hold+of+ourselves+and+wish+to+impose+on+others%22&pg=PT141#v=onepage, The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Volume One (1931-1934) <br class="br">Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“You are like a person who consumes herself in love and giving and does not know the miracles that are born of this.”

Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love

A Spy in the House of Love (1954)

“I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.”

August 1932 Henry and June
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“Neurosis was caused by our attempt to separate physical and metaphysical levels, to set them up in opposition to each other, thus engaging in an internecine war. If it is true that we do live on several levels simultaneously- drama and action, past and present, personal and collective- we are given ways to unify them: one by religion, the other by art. Separating such levels is only necessary when they conflict, and separation is a result of conflict. Seeing how these levels can work together in harmony is the task of our contemporary writers.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

“Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."”

The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.”

Feb. 15, 1936
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“The dream has to be translated into reality.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

“The dream, scrutinized by scientists in various experiments, has been found to be an absolute necessity to man.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

“Love reduces the complexity of living.”

June 1932 Henry and June
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“I am the one who has felt most deeply the stuttering of the tongue in its relation to thought.”

Anaïs Nin book Under a Glass Bell

"Je suis le plus malade des Surrealistes"
Under a Glass Bell (1944)

“In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.”

May 11, 1935, published in Fire : From "A Journal of Love" : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937 (1995)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life.”

Anaïs Nin book Winter of Artifice

Winter of Artifice (1939)

“No desire of the body, but for what lies in there, what lies in the flesh, the world, the thought, the creation, the illumination.”

March 2, 1936 Fire
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“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.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

“The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

“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.”

As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126

“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.”

June 1932 Henry and June
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.”

February, 1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other, if only I could save you all from yourselves.”

Anaïs Nin book House of Incest

House of Incest (1936)