September 2012
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kylaaarsboy asked: "Henry and June" is based on her first diary Vol. 1 (1931-1934). The book and the movie are based on this diary...I suggest you read it if you haven't. There you'll find the quote "and then he flooded me again."
August 2012
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July 2012
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Anonymous asked: In Henry and June she once uses a phrase like "and then he flooded me again". Unfortunately I can't find the exact spot anymore. Can anyone help?
Limited-edition Anaïs Nin poster. Letterpress.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/104303814/anais-nin-quote-letterpress-poster-12.
Anais Nin’s quote from her classic novel ‘Seduction of the Minotaur’ has been carefully handset in Garamond metal type and printed on a luxurious handmade cotton paper. This is a strictly limited print, with only 3 posters (12x12”) available.
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Quote from ‘Cities of the interior’ by Anaïs Nin
And she sowed on buttons for him, she was sowing not only buttons but also sowing together the sparse disconnected fragments of his ideas, of his inventions, of his unfinished dreams, she was wearing and sowing and mending because he carried himself no thread of connections, no knowledge of mending, no thread of continuity or repair. If he allowed a word to pass that was poisoned like the...
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February 2012
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May 2011
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ilaughedatthis 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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