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    The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations
    The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations
    The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations
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    The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations

    By Anaïs Nin

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    Besides her famous diaries and erotica, Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) is known for her inspirational and insightful quotations. When one googles “Anaïs Nin quotes,” more than 21,000 websites appear, making her one of the most oft-quoted authors on the web. This alone is reason enough to collect her most popular and meaningful quotations into one book, but there is another as well: the inaccuracies and misinformation which frequently occur in our cut-and-paste internet culture.

    The Quotable Anaïs Nin rectifies these errors by taking each quotation word for word directly from its source and accurately citing it. If a quotation found on the web does not exist in Nin’s work, it is not included here, which means some popular sayings attributed to Nin are absent. Examples of this include the poem “Risk,” which begins with “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud...” and “Good things happen to those who hustle.” Not only do these quotations not belong to Nin, their authors have been verified as Elizabeth Appell and Chuck Noll, respectively. There are probably dozens of other misattributed “Nin quotes” floating around the web.

    The contents of The Quotable Anaïs Nin are divided into general themes that reflect the general characteristics of Nin’s writing: lust for life, love and sensuality, consciousness, men and women, and writing and art. Within each category, the quotations are arranged and numbered according to the title of their sources. Quotations from Nin’s unpublished diaries are cited as “unpublished diary, 1948,” etc. The novels included in Cities of the Interior are cited using the pagination from the collection, not the individually published novels.

    When quotations appear in more than one source, the following protocol is used: the quote from the earliest source is used unless the wording in a newer source is more widely known. For example, in the original handwritten diary of the 1940s, Nin wrote, “Life shrinks in proportion to one’s courage,” which appears in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947 (published in 2013). During the editing process for the third volume of The Diary of Anaïs Nin (published in 1969), Nin changed the wording to “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage,” which is the most recognizable version and, therefore, the one used here.

    The Quotable Anaïs Nin is not only a useful reference book, it is also a source of thought-provoking and stimulating quotations, one for each day of the year. The fact that this book is digitally searchable will surely enhance its value to readers and scholars alike.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSky Blue Press LLC
    Release dateJun 16, 2014
    ISBN9780988917040
    The Quotable Anais Nin: 365 Quotations with Citations
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    Anaïs Nin

    ANAÏS NIN (1903-1977) was born in Paris and aspired at an early age to be a writer. An influential artist and thinker, she was the author of several novels, short stories, critical studies, a collection of essays, nine published volumes of her Diary, and two volumes of erotica, Delta of Venus and Little Birds. 

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      The Quotable Anais Nin - Anaïs Nin

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Special thanks to:

      The Anaïs Nin Trust

      Sara Herron

      Kim Krizan

      Chip Mosher

      INTRODUCTION

      Besides her famous diaries and erotica, Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) is known for her inspirational and insightful quotations. When one googles Anaïs Nin quotes, more than 21,000 websites appear, making her one of the most oft-quoted authors on the web. This alone is reason enough to collect her most popular and meaningful quotations into one book, but there is another as well: the inaccuracies and misinformation which frequently occur in our cut-and-paste internet culture.

      The Quotable Anaïs Nin rectifies these errors by taking each quotation word for word directly from its source and accurately citing it. If a quotation found on the web does not exist in Nin’s work, it is not included here, which means some popular sayings attributed to Nin are absent. Examples of this include the poem Risk, which begins with And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud… and Good things happen to those who hustle. Not only do these quotations not belong to Nin, evidence suggests that the true authors are Elizabeth Appell and Chuck Noll, respectively. There are probably dozens of other misattributed Nin quotes floating around the web.

      The contents of The Quotable Anaïs Nin are divided into general themes that reflect the characteristics of Nin’s writing: lust for life, love and sensuality, consciousness, women and men, and writing and art. Within each category, the quotations are arranged and numbered according to the title of their sources. Quotations from Nin’s unpublished diaries are cited as unpublished diary, 1948, etc. The novels included in Cities of the Interior are cited using the pagination from the collection, not the individually published novels.

      When quotations appear in more than one source, the following protocol is used: the quote from the earliest source is used unless the wording in a newer source is more widely known. For example, in the original handwritten diary of the 1940s, Nin wrote, Life shrinks in proportion to one’s courage, which appears in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939-1947 (published in 2013). During the editing process for the third volume of The Diary of Anaïs Nin (published in 1969), Nin changed the wording to Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage, which is the most recognizable version and, therefore, the one used here.

      The Quotable Anaïs Nin is not only a useful reference book, it is also a source of thought-provoking and stimulating quotations, one for each day of the year. The fact that this book is digitally searchable will surely enhance its value to readers and scholars alike.

      —Paul Herron, June, 2014

      LUST FOR LIFE

      ~1~

      I must be a mermaid… I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

      —The Four-Chambered Heart, in Cities of the Interior, pg. 249

      ~2~

      When she cooked, the entire kitchen was galvanized by the strength she put into it; the dishes, pans, knives, everything bore the brunt of her strength, everything was violently marshalled, challenged, forced to bloom, to cook, to boil. The vegetables were peeled as if the skins were torn from their resisting flesh, as they were the fur of animals being peeled by the hunters. The fruit was stabbed, assassinated, the lettuce murdered with a machete. The flavoring was poured like hot lava and one expected the salad to wither, shrivel instantly. The bread was sliced with a vigor which recalled heads falling from the guillotine. The bottles and glasses were knocked hard against each other as in bowling games, so that the wine, beer and water were conquered before they reached the table.

      —Ladders to Fire, in Cities of the Interior, pg. 4

      ~3~

      Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

      —D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, pg. 20

      ~4~

      Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

      —Diary 1, pg. 5

      ~5~

      You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book…or you take a trip…and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure.

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