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“For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds…”

Anaïs Nin

February, 1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Source: Fire: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

“I want to make my own discoveries……. penetrate the evil which attracts me”

Anaïs Nin

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

“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.”

Anaïs Nin

“Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.”

Anaïs Nin

October 18, 1936 Fire
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”

Anaïs Nin

“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”

Anaïs Nin

“When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.”

Anaïs Nin

November, 1933
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.”

Anaïs Nin

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

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”

Anaïs Nin

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

“I have no brakes on… analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.”

Anaïs Nin

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

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”

Anaïs Nin

“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”

Anaïs Nin

Fall 1943
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Source: Journals Of Anais Nin Volume 3

“When one is pretending the entire body revolts.”

Anaïs Nin book Winter of Artifice

Winter of Artifice (1939)

“I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.”

Anaïs Nin

“Passion gives me moments of wholeness.”

Anaïs Nin

February, 1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

“Stories do not end.”

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“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”

Anaïs Nin

As quoted in Why Men Fall Out of Love : The Secrets They Don't Tell (2005) by Michael French, p. 142
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