Top 380 Anaïs Nin Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.”

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352. “I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.”

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353. “The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.”

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354. “Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.”

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355. “Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”

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356. “I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.”

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357. “Everything but happiness is neurosis.”

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358. “Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one’s self.”

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359. “We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other’s arms lulled by our love, by tenderness – sensuality in which the whole being can participate.”

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360. “People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.”

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361. “I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.”

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362. “I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.”

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363. “To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.”

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364. “She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.”

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365. “The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.”

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366. “This morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.”

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367. “At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.”

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368. “Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.”

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369. “Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.”

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370. “I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.”

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371. “If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.”

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372. “I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.”

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373. “The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.”

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374. “I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.”

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375. “To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.”

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376. “We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.”

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377. “Strange, isn’t it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.”

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378. “I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.”

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379. “America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.”

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380. “To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.”

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381. “There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.”

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382. “The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.”

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383. “I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.”

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384. “One handles truths like dynamite.”

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385. “We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.”

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386. “I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman.”

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387. “I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”

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388. “I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.”

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389. “Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.”

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390. “The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame; the climate at times depresses him.”

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391. “Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.”

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392. “A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.”

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393. “Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.”

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394. “One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.”

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