“The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have… excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.”
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Anaïs Nin 278
writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977Related quotes
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
August 19, 1851
Journals (1838-1859)
Variant: How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
“We should live two lives in order to understand the world: one as a man and the other as a woman.”
Bisognerebbe vivere due vite per capire il mondo: una come uomo e l’altra come donna.
Speaking before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on September 21, 1983, in reference to members of the U.S. Commission on Fair Market Value Policy for Federal Coal Leasing
1980s
“We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.”
In a letter to Mabel Dodge Luhan, New York 1925; as quoted in Voicing our visions, – Writings by women artists, ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991, p. 224
1920s
Source: remembered rapture: the writer at work
“In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.”
Pg 5
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight