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“Ecstasy is the moment of exaltation from wholeness!”

Anaïs Nin

September 10, 1936
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men’s dreams.”

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Children of the Albatross (1947)

“By shutting out the outside world, drugs place one not only in confrontation with the dreaming self, but also ones nightmares.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

“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.”

Anaïs Nin

August 22, 1936 Fire
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“The hallucinatory drugs only reveal the world of images we contain but do not teach us interpretation, illumination, or enlightenment.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

“I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.”

Anaïs Nin

June 5, 1936 Fire
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.”

Anaïs Nin

As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 137

“The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.”

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As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 127

“I would say that compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.”

Anaïs Nin book The Diary of Anaïs Nin

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“He left me at my hotel at 3:00 AM murmuring: "You're marvelous."”

Anaïs Nin

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

“I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.”

Anaïs Nin

June, 1935
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers — you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance.”

Anaïs Nin

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

“For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.”

Anaïs Nin

November, 1933
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“Everything but happiness is neurosis.”

Anaïs Nin

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

“I need a place where I can shout and weep. I have to be a Spanish savage at some time of the day. I record here the hysteria life causes in me. The overflow of an undisciplined extravagance. To hell with taste and art, with all contractions and polishings. Here I shout, I dance, I weep, I gnash my teeth, I go mad — all by myself, in bad English, in chaos. It will keep me sane for the world and for art.”

Anaïs Nin

Oct. 27, 1933 (writing about her diary)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“Because so many of our writers were born in ugly environments, in monstrous poverty and humilitation, they continue to assert that this is the natural environment, reality, and that beauty is artifice. Why should the natural state be ugliness? Natural to whom? We may be born in ugliness, but the natural consequences should be a thirst for its opposite. To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school. A hunger for the unknown, and an aspiration towards beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.
We are born with the power to alter what we are given at birth.
When the Japanese paint flowers or the sea on a kimono they mean to establish a link with nature. But they select only what is beautiful in nature to maintain their love of life.
The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything. That is the deepest meaning of rebellion, not the wearing of different clothes, haircuts, or the adopting of other cultures.”

Anaïs Nin book The Novel of the Future

The Novel of the Future (1969)

“One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
But paradoxically, we create fiction out of human concern for the victims of the revelations. This concern is at the root of literature.”

Anaïs Nin book The Diary of Anaïs Nin

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)