Anais Nin Ordinary Quotations

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.