Anais Nin

jbutterflye
jbutterflye Posts: 1,914 Member
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Anyone here familiar with her work? She was brilliant, and knew the art of fantasy and seduction. She also had some incredible psychological insight.

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  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    "It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."

    “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
    ― Anaïs Nin

    Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
    ― Anaïs Nin,
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    I can do this all night.
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    “Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
    ― Anaïs Nin,
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    “I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    “There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
    ― Anaïs Nin
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    “You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    “You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”

    I like this so much I wanted to post this shizz twice
  • VpinkLotus
    VpinkLotus Posts: 849 Member
    “I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.”
    ― Anaïs Nin

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  • deemartin2
    deemartin2 Posts: 168 Member
    "Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous."
    -Anais Nin


    My favorite Anais Nin quote!!
  • Hepburn43
    Hepburn43 Posts: 24 Member
    Anais Nin...French born female writer of erotica. My favorite compilations of her short stories 1979 "Little Birds." Enjoy.
  • deemartin2
    deemartin2 Posts: 168 Member
    I think this is perhaps my favorite thread I have found on here thus far!

    "There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."
  • jbutterflye
    jbutterflye Posts: 1,914 Member
    Thanks Chasin! Some great quotes!
  • crisanderson27
    crisanderson27 Posts: 5,343 Member
    Freakin <3.
  • jbutterflye
    jbutterflye Posts: 1,914 Member
    I went on an Anais Nin kick some years ago, and didn't finish until I read all her diaries. I get a bit obsessive sometimes when I'm interested in something. She really spoke to me. Her words are profound, and I felt them in my gut. She had this uncanny ability to straddle two worlds..truth and fantasy, and the threads of both were tightly woven through the tapestry of her writings.
  • jfaironair
    jfaironair Posts: 26 Member
    I heard of Anais Nin in college but somehow I never read any of her works. This makes me want to catch up. Any suggestions for a 1st time Anais Nin reader?

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