Anais Nin Reality Quotations

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.

The dream has to be translated into reality.

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

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.

Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.

I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.