Quotes from Anais Nin

No wonder I am rarely natural in life. Natural to what, true to which condition of soul, to which layer? How can I be sincere if each moment I must choose between five or six souls?

Você tem o hábito de regressar, iniciar uma caminhada e regressar. Isso é mau. É o primeiro dos crimes contra a vida. Acredito em audácia.

Half of these rotund men in short Tyrolian pants, monstrously ugly but determined looking, are either Professors or Doctors.

I underlined this: "The fundamental note which she sounds is that of pain. The pain of isolation. The very keynote of the artist's eternal rack.

but the truth is I am terribly weak. And I crave the balm of beautiful and soft things.

Gostava dos infernos do amor, do amor misturado com os grandes sofrimentos e os grandes obstáculos. Queria matar monstros, lutar e vencer inimigos como um novo dom Quixote.

Será que o amor sempre acabava por se transformar em uma longa sucessão de sofrimentos?

And now to work. Maybe you need a woman behind you, as I need a man behind me. I said a man! Mars the warrior, with fire in his nostrils. Anaïs

But in 1928 she had inexplicably, confusingly fallen in love. The man who triggered this upheaval was John Erskine, best-selling American author of such books as The Private Life of Helen of Troy and a renowned pianist.

A creation is not a thing of the moment, instantaneously formed, but very slowly and gradually shaped out of infinitesimally small pieces. We think it is instantaneous because the process is more or less hidden and apparently mysterious. Here at last is the link between art and life which I have been seeking.

I had a thought tonight that it was to a woman like you I should have been married. Or, is it that love, in the beginning, always inspires such thoughts?

me he enfrentado a mis sentimientos. Soy plenamente concientes de ellos.Prro aún no he encontrado a nadie con quién quisiera vivirlos hasta el final. Por otra parte no estoy segura de que es lo que quiero vivir hasta el final.

For some foolish reason, that desperateness seems to act on him better than your literary needs (of communication etc.). It is the more obvious need, and other writers put that forward.

It is to nature I want to return, it is my nature I want to accept.

It doesn't matter whether one is for or against—the writing it is all that counts.

A cambio de fidelidad, yo le doy mi imaginación, e incluso mi talento, si se quiere. Nunca he estado satisfecha de nuestras cuentas, pero han de mantenerse.

He prizes the mattresses even more, though they have big holes in them, because of sentimental reasons.

Yesterday you said there were flaws in my goodness. Won't you tell me what they are so that I may accentuate them? In that knowledge lies my salvation. Save me from goodness, Henry.

One of the properties belonged to Madame du Barry. During the revolution her lover was guillotined and his head thrown over the ivy-covered wall into her garden. This is now the property of Coty.

It is the men who take the women to the circus, and they go to hear the men laugh!

I turned away from life to work, to bring the work up to date. This is our time of peace, when one writes music.

Discovering a new street in Paris, or a new café, is much more interesting to me than visiting an old château or cathedral in some godforsaken hamlet.

En mí todo es o bien adoración y pasión, o bien lástima y comprensión. Raramente odio, si bien, cuando lo hago, odio atrozmente.

I am in a fever of ruthless honesty. Anaïs