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Nin Quotes: "If you can't create, you destroy."

If you can't create, you destroy.



Nin Quotes: "There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like."

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.




Nin Quotes: "[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately."

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.



Nin Quotes: "All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution."

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.




Nin Quotes: "When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color."

When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.



Nin Quotes: "I wanted to remember in order to be able to return."

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.



Nin Quotes: "I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers."

I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.




Nin Quotes: "Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it."

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.



Nin Quotes: "When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing."

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.



Nin Quotes: "Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones."

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.



Nin Quotes: "It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.



Nin Quotes: "Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned."

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.




Nin Quotes: "But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others."

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.



Nin Quotes: "If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth."

If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.



Nin Quotes: "To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry."

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.



Nin Quotes: "I'm sick of my own romanticism!"

I'm sick of my own romanticism!



Nin Quotes: "The dream has to be translated into reality."

The dream has to be translated into reality.



Nin Quotes: "I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry."

I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.



Nin Quotes: "Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots."

Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.



Nin Quotes: "The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium."

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.



Nin Quotes: "gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams."

gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.



Nin Quotes: "notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite."

notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.



Nin Quotes: "In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection."

In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.



Nin Quotes: "New York has an electronic heart."

New York has an electronic heart.



Nin Quotes: "Will you come down and kiss me good night?"

Will you come down and kiss me good night?



Nin Quotes: "Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat."

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.



Nin Quotes: "He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away."

He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away.



Nin Quotes: "Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence."

Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.



Nin Quotes: "He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity."

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.



Nin Quotes: "My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water."

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.



Nin Quotes: "To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice."

To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.



Nin Quotes: "she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience."

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.



Nin Quotes: "The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror."

The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.



Nin Quotes: "Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning."

Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.



Nin Quotes: "I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama."

I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.



Nin Quotes: "A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies."

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.



Nin Quotes: "My diary seems to keep me whole."

My diary seems to keep me whole.



Nin Quotes: "Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons."

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.



Nin Quotes: "Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing."

Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.



Nin Quotes: "I will not be just a tourist in a world of images."

I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.



Nin Quotes: "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.



Nin Quotes: "Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires."

Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.



Nin Quotes: "I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me"

I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me



Nin Quotes: "She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow."

She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.



Nin Quotes: "The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom."

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.



Nin Quotes: "This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams."

This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.



Nin Quotes: "Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents."

Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.



Nin Quotes: "I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love."

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.



Nin Quotes: "I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt."

I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.