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Anais Nin Quotes

«We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author)
«The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author) | About: Love | Keywords: abnormality, incapacity
«We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.»
«Dreams are necessary to life.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author) | About: Dreams | Keywords: necessary
«There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.»
«When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.»
«There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.»
«I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.»
«When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author) | Keywords: tolerable
«The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author) | Keywords: role, unable, writer

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