Post on 03-Jul-2015
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The Importance
of Anais Nin
Assembled By: Lesley Richter
“You are not my only daughter… you are two
daughters, one byfleshand the
other by spirit.” –Letter from
Joaquin to Anais
―Don‘t do that!‘ There was great
anxiety in his voce. He repeated:
‗Don‘t do that!‘ She felt a great stab
of anxiety. Why was he so
disturbed?‖ –Children of the
Albatross
The “Poet-Banker”
…And the Trustee
―June had told Henry that he was a failure as
a writer, that he was a child, dependent on
woman. That he could do nothing without
woman.
We were drinking.
I said I thought Henry was a powerful writer.‖
–Vol. I 136
Image by Bonni Reid
“Art is the prescription
for sanity and relief from the
terrors and pains of human
life.” –Anais Nin
“I want to live only in ecstasy. Small doses moderate loves, all half-
shades, leave me cold. I like extravagance.” –Vol. I 140
―There was nothing beautiful about
his anger… he was blaming me for
my weaknesses. I let him. I did not
seek to make him understand
himself or me.‖—Vol. I 245
―The neurotic, no matter whether
productive or obstructed, suffers
fundamentally from the fact that he
cannot or will not accept himself,
his own individuality, his own
personality.‖ –Vol. I 200
With lip-smacking glee, or
sour disapproval, they have turned their spotlights upon the supposedly “sensational” and “shocking” details of
theprivate sexual life of
the lady from Neuilly which, of
course, fail to reveal a complete image
of a complex
personality, or to illuminate the
nature of the impact her creations have
had on a vast multi-
generational audience.”
–Günter Stuhlmann, Anais Nin: A Book of Mirrors
―Love never dies a natural death. It dies
because we don‘t know how to replenish it‘s
source. It dies of blindness and errors and
betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it
dies of weariness, of withering, of
tarnishing.‖
―People prefer sex to be underworld, prefer the women in the boudoir
so they can just have their perverse dream they want with this
person, and have no relationship—they prefer sex to be separated from
love.‖ –Kaufman on filming Henry and June in Paris