Anaïs Nin

« The enemy of love is never outside, it is not this man or that woman, it is what we lack inside. » (Anaïs Nin)

Anaïs Nin

« I couldn’t live in any of the worlds they offered me: the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself after having been destroyed by life. This, I believe, is the reason for being of any work of art. » (Anaïs Nin)

Anaïs Nin

« You can’t save people
you can only love them. » (Anais Nin)

Anaïs Nin

« She was tied to the moon by long threads of red tangled blood. She moved like a woman tied to the moon… it enveloped her and it opened her to an absolute night without dawn. » (Anaïs Nin)

Anaïs Nin

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another.”
(Anaïs Nin)

Anaïs Nin

“I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.”
(Anaïs Nin)

Anaïs Nin

“The sun shines on the duality of day and night, and on eternal love. That which dies in modern man because he is like a potted plant on a balcony, never dies in me because my soul reaches to the other side of the earth, and my roots are infinite.” (Anais Nin)

The snake woman of Nara from the Kaikidan Ekotoba Scroll around 1850

“The sun shines on the duality of day and night, and on eternal love. That which dies in modern man because he is like a potted plant on a balcony, never dies in me because my soul reaches to the other side of the earth, and my roots are infinite.” (Anais Nin)

Brassaï

Brassaï. Anaïs Nin drapée dans un châle 1932. Via RMN

Brassaï. Anaïs Nin drapée dans un châle 1932