Anais Nin

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife.

Anais Nin

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

Anais Nin

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

Anais Nin

I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

Anais Nin

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Anais Nin

I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

Anais Nin

I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension.

Anais Nin

I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

Anais Nin

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

Anais Nin

I write emotional algebra.

Anais Nin