“We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.”
— Anaïs Nin
“The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.”
— Anaïs Nin
“The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.”
— Anaïs Nin
“I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.”
— Anaïs Nin
“If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.”
— Anaïs Nin
“The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.”
— Anaïs Nin
“What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.”
— Anaïs Nin
“We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.”
— Anaïs Nin
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