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Anais Nin Quotes

«It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.»
«Jazz is the music of the body»
Author: Anais Nin (Author) | About: Jazz | Keywords: jazz, Music of, The Jazz
«Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality...I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author) | About: Love
«It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author)
«Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I can't resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author) | About: Love
«We see not what is, but what we are.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author)
«To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and the psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author) | About: Change
«The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author)
«The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author)
«If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author) | About: Happiness, Knowledge

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