August 2009
2 posts
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June 2009
2 posts
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants,...
May 2009
1 post
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection
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March 2009
2 posts
Probably if I had then the sense of humor I have today and if you had then the...
There was once a woman who had one hundred faces. She showed one face to each...
February 2009
6 posts
She knew all the trickeries in this war of love.
… if the man had admired...
– A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin
You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...
– Anais Nin (via ohyeth)
i disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. i...
– anais nin (via paavo)
Your eyes make me shy.
– Anais Nin (via littlemiss)
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring...
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January 2009
1 post
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish...
– Anaïs Nin (via theyoungmachine)
December 2008
1 post
the fear of love being doomed to vanish as my father did, is a secret not to...
October 2008
2 posts
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more...
– Anais Nin (via yesyes)
September 2008
4 posts
I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire....
– The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol 7
I despise my own oversensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance, but...
– Henry and June
Other women who are talented but ugly are self-satisfied, confident,...
– Henry and June
I have a mind which is bigger than all the rest of me, an inexorable conscience
– Henry and June
August 2008
2 posts
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will...
Dreams are necessary to life.
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants,...
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no...
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when...
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to...
July 2008
17 posts
I don’t know that I so much want Henrys faithfulness because I am...
– Henry and June
Any dependence causes anxiety. Because one is living through another and fears...
– The Diary of Anais Nin 1944-1947
I have never known a person whose relationship to myself I have not finally...
– The Diary of Anais Nin 1944-1947
There she stopped and took off her bathing suit to lie in the sun. Drifts of...
– A Spy in the House of Love
Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I...
– Henry and June (one of my favorite Anais Nin writings)
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To tell you the truth, I knew and assumed this beforehand, because I have found...
– The Diary of Anais Nin 1944-1947