Anaïs Nin

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Quotes

• "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
• "We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
• "This diary is my kief, hashish, and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice."
• "...for no one has ever loved an adventurous woman as they have loved adventurous men."
• "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
• "I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don't mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding."
• "How wrong is it for women [sic] to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than set out to create it herself."
• "I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."

List of works

• D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study
• Collages
• Winter of Artifice
• Under a Glass Bell
• House of Incest
• Delta of Venus
• Little Birds
• Cities of the Interior, in five volumes:
  • Ladders to Fire
  • Children of the Albatross
  • The Four-Chambered Heart
  • A Spy in the House of Love
  • Seduction of the Minotaur
• The Diary of Anaïs Nin 7 volumes
• The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin 4 volumes
• The Novel of the Future
• In Favor of the Sensitive Man
• Henry and June
• Incest
• Fire
• Nearer the Moon