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Anaïs Nin on Anniversary

1903–1977 France

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13 quotes

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

Diary entries (1914)

No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness .

Diary entries (1914)

Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."

Diary entries (1914)

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

Diary entries (1914)

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

Diary entries (1914)

Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance — that is all!

Diary entries (1914)

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

A Spy in the House of Love (1954)

If only we could all escape from this house of incest, where we only love ourselves in the other, if only I could save you all from yourselves.

House of Incest (1936)

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

Diary entries (1914)

Love reduces the complexity of living.

Diary entries (1914)

I love your silences, they are like mine.

Under a Glass Bell (1944)

You are like a person who consumes herself in love and giving and does not know the miracles that are born of this.

A Spy in the House of Love (1954)

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes one feel as you might when a drowning man holds unto you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

French Writers of the Past (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anaïs Nin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.