February 2012
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May 2011
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ironicheroine asked: can you please edit the anais nin quote to "Lady Chatterley, for instance" instead of "Lady Chatterley, or instance." typos on such awesome quotes really bother me! thank you!
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book (Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate...
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“She is bizarre, fantastic, nervous, like someone in a high fever. Her beauty...”
– Anaïs Nin (via throughworlds)
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April 2011
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“Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as...”
– Anaïs Nin (via 2bmarooned)
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“And then suddenly she could no longer laugh: caricature was a form of hatred.”
– Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (via otherpaths)
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“Above all he possessed a most elaborate encyclopedia of women’s flaws. In this...”
– Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (via otherpaths)
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“At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As...”
– Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (via otherpaths)
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“I am at one with a sea of sensations, glitter, silk, skin, eyes, mouths, desire.”
– Anaïs Nin; The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1 (via rabbitinthemoon)
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“…these days I occupy myself with frivolities. I serve the goddess of...”
– Anaïs Nin, Henry and June (via inkedspired)
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“I am an international spy in the house of love.”
– Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (via otherpaths)
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“I wish I were there now, drinking with them, flying, seeing new countries, new...”
– Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (via otherpaths)
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“Hugo and I yield entirely to each other. We cannot be without each other, we...”
– Anaïs Nin (via softwhisper)
March 2011
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“I want the impossible, I want to fly all the time, I destroy ordinary life, I...”
– Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (via otherpaths)
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“‘You know, my dear Judith Sands, I am not here to frighten you, or violate...”
– Anaïs Nin, Collages (via her-rabbits)
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“Today I cant work because of yesterdays feelings lie ready to pounce on me out...”
– Anaïs Nin, Henry and June (via thestudyofromance)
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“I am not going home to Julien and Juliana tonight. I love them but that is not...”
– Anaïs Nin, Collages (via her-rabbits)
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“We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations...”
– Anaïs Nin (via andreaschroeder)
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“Bruce asked her questions as if he were a reporter interviewing her, but a...”
– Anaïs Nin, Collages (via her-rabbits)
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“Her feeling of fragility was so strong that she was startled by the appearance...”
– Anaïs Nin, A Spy in the House of Love (via otherpaths)
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“Electric flesh-arrows… traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the...”
– Anaïs Nin (via justjasper)
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“I want to know them well, intimately. I have to be able to describe them.”
– Anaïs Nin (via ennuiprayer)
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“Man-fred is the man I am going to love. He may not yet be born. I have often...”
– Anaïs Nin, Collages (via her-rabbits)
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“Have you ever noticed how short American names are? They are like lizards who...”
– Anaïs Nin, Collages (via her-rabbits)
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“When does real love begin? At first it was a fire, eclipses, short circuits,...”
– Anaïs Nin, Fire (via nestofroses)
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“I don’t tell the truth any more to those who can’t make use of it. I tell it...”
– Anaïs Nin (via better-than-sex)
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“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will...”
– Anaïs Nin (via bruiseeasy)
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“The luminous mask of her face, waxy, immobile, with eyes like sentinels....”
– Anaïs Nin, House of Incest
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“How often I tried to kill the ‘ideal’ self, assassinate the critical...”
– Anaïs Nin
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Pam Shaffer interviewed by The Official Anais Nin... →
itsasecretpr:
Pam Shaffer was recently interviewed by the official Anais Nin blog about her debut album “As We Are,” which was inspired by Nin’s diaries. Read all about it here!
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“I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the...”
– Anaïs Nin, Henry and June (via thestudyofromance)
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“Greyness is no ordinary greyness, but a vast lead roof which covers the world...”
– Anaïs Nin, House of Incest
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“There is a difference in the aging of men and women which hope one day we can...”
– Anaïs Nin (via gracearts)
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Anais Nin is beyond .......
Question/Submission (via ladylilith13): I am in love with Anais Nin. Personally i am not into women sexually but Anais Nin makes me all hot and bothered and intense.
Answer (via fuckyeahanaisnin): I’m sure you aren’t alone!
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Anonymous asked: Hi! :) I have read some of Anais Nin's fiction books and I really enjoyed them... I was thinking of reading her diaries but then I doubted. I don't know if she wanted her diaries to be published but I do believe that most of us while writing a diary we expose our deepest feelings, thougts and secrets that we don't want anyone to read them (most people hide their diaries for that...
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“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an...”
– Anaïs Nin, Henry and June (via inkedspired)
Question/Submission (via cosmiccircus): I just wanted to say that I love Anais Nin! Many of her quotes are my personal truths! Thank you for this blog! It’s amazing.
Answer (via fuckyeahanaisnin): Thanks for following! (While I’m at it, I hope you all have wonderful Thursdays! Or, er, whichever day it is when you get around to reading this.)
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