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Anais Nin Quotes (159 quotes)
 | Source/Notes: Collages (1964), p. 116 |
| “The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.” ―Anais Nin Source/Notes: As quoted in Woman As Writer (1978) by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, p. 42 |
| “Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.” ―Anais Nin Source/Notes: As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 137 |
| “Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh... without destroying that moment.” ―Anais Nin Source/Notes: As quoted in D. H. Lawrence and Nine Women Writers (1996) by Leo Hamalian, p. 93 |
| Source/Notes: As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126 |
| “The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.” ―Anais Nin Source/Notes: As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126 |
| “Electric flesh-arrows traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.” ―Anais Nin Source/Notes: As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126 |
| “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.” ―Anais Nin Source/Notes: As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126 |
| Source/Notes: As quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 127 |
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| Source/Notes: As quoted in Why Men Fall Out of Love : The Secrets They Don't Tell (2005) by Michael French, p. 142 |
| “Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.” ―Anais Nin Source/Notes: Winter, 1931-1932 - Diary entries (1914 - 1974) |
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Anais Nin
Born: February 21, 1903
Died: January 14, 1977 (aged 73)
Nationality: French
Occupation: Author
Bio: Anaïs Nin was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.
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