Anaïs Nin Quotes

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

He was insane with anger. Or is all insanity anger?

I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.

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.

"If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine."

Good things happen to those who hustle.

And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

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