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    The Quotable Anais Nin Volume 2
    The Quotable Anais Nin Volume 2
    The Quotable Anais Nin Volume 2
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    The Quotable Anais Nin Volume 2

    By Anaïs Nin

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    Volume 2 of The Quotable Anais Nin contains 365 quotations (one for each day of the year) with confirmed citations. The contents are divided into categories of Lust for Life; Love and Sensuality; Consciousness; Women and Men; and Writing and Art. The quotations come from a wide spectrum of Anais Nin's work, some of it as yet unpublished, including her famous diaries, fiction, erotica, critical work, lectures, and interviews. Collected, edited and introduced by Paul Herron.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSky Blue Press LLC
    Release dateMay 17, 2021
    ISBN9781735745923
    The Quotable Anais Nin Volume 2
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    Anaïs Nin

    Anais Nin (1903-1977) was born in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, near Paris, and was the daughter of a renowned pianist and composer, Joaquin Nin. Abandoned by her father in 1913, she and her family traveled to New York, where she began her now famous diary, comprised of some 35,000 pages over a period of six decades. When the first volume of 'The Diary of Anais Nin' was published in 1966, it began Nin's meteoric surge to fame. However, often overlooked are the works of fiction she created, beginning with 'The House of Incest' in 1936, which was followed by a then-banned edition of a collection of novellas under the title 'The Winter of Artifice.' This original edition has been republished for the first time in 2007. Perhaps Nin's most acclaimed fiction is the series of short stories in 'Under a Glass Bell,' which she self-published in New York during the 1940s when no commercial publisher would take the risk. She then began a series of novels that were interconnected and finally collected into one volume entitled 'Cities of the Interior.' Her final novel was 'Collages,' about which Henry Miller said, "Even the finest collages fall apart with time; these will not."Anais Nin was one of the 20th century's most innovative and compelling artist, and now her works are finally appearing in digital format.

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      The Quotable Anais Nin Volume 2 - Anaïs Nin

      THE QUOTABLE ANAÏS NIN

      365 Quotations with Citations

      Volume Two

      Collected and compiled by

      Paul Herron

      With engravings by Ian Hugo

      Sky Blue Press

      State College, Pennsylvania

      Published by Sky Blue Press at Smashwords

      copyright © 2021 Sky Blue Press

      http://www.skybluepress.com

      Contents

      © 2021 The Anaïs Nin Trust

      Introduction copyright © 2021 by Paul Herron

      Ian Hugo’s Engravings copyright © 2021 by The Anaïs Nin Trust

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic of mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, except by a reviewer or scholar who may quote brief passages in a review or article.

      Published by Sky Blue Press, State College, Pennsylvania

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-7357459-2-3

      Print ISBN: 978-1-7357459-1-6

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2015954907

      Special thanks to:

      The Anaïs Nin Trust

      PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AS FOLLOWS:

      Front cover: Anaïs Nin, 1930s

      Anaïs Nin at her printing press, 1944

      Anaïs Nin, 1920s, R. F. Maynard

      Anaïs Nin, 1950s

      Anaïs Nin, 1970s, Eva Sereny

      Anaïs Nin, 1950s

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTI ON

      LUST FOR LIFE

      LOVE AND SENSUALITY

      CONSCIOUSNESS

      WOMEN AND MEN

      WRITING AND ART

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A CHRONOLOGY

      WORKS CITED

      PERMISSIONS INFORMATION

      ALSO AVAILABLE FROM SKY BLUE PRESS

      LIST OF WORKS BY ANAÏS NIN

      LIST OF WORKS ABOUT ANAÏS NIN

      INTRODUCTION

      The work of Anaïs Nin (1903-1977), as the first volume of this series demonstrates, is the source of many quotations that seem to speak to us today as strongly as the day they were published in her diaries, fiction, and used in her lectures and interviews. One recognizes their popularity when one googles Anaïs Nin quotes: nearly 2,000,000 results appear.

      The internet, while an important and handy source of information, can be a source of misinformation. Quotations have been misattributed to Nin, most famously the Risk poem. Sometimes Nin’s words are misquoted, or cited incorrectly if at all.

      Both volumes of The Quotable Anaïs Nin present quotations exactly as they appear in print and cite their sources. A general rule is that the quotation’s citation indicates the original source. Nin’s publication history is rather complicated: for example, about half of the first volume of The Diary of Anaïs Nin (published in 1966) and the unexpurgated Henry & June (1986) cover the same time period (1931-1932); sometimes passages are used in both books for the sake of context and storyline. Any such quotation would be cited from the Diary because it was published first. If the Henry & June quotation is significantly different than the one in the Diary, and has been deemed by this editor to be superior, then the Henry & June version is used. This is true of all the expurgated and unexpurgated diaries, and Nin’s fiction when more than one version was published.

      An exception to the rule is Nin’s roman fleuve, consisting of five novels, each of which appeared individually at some point, in various editions by various publishers, but were finally collected in an omnibus volume, Cities of the Interior, the final form of which was published in 1961 by Swallow Press. For the sake of simplicity, quotations from any of these novels are cited from Cities.

      A second exception is the quotations that appear in Conversations with Anaïs Nin, which are collected from other sources. For the sake of simplicity, we cite the collection itself and not the individual original sources.

      Several quotations appear here from as-yet-unpublished works, most notably the final two unexpurgated diaries; since these books have yet to be formatted in a final form, instead of using page numbers for citation, the year a quotation was written is provided.

      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. Unlike the first volume of The Quotable Anaïs Nin, the quotations here are very loosely arranged in a way that follows a theme-based thread.

      Both volumes of The Quotable Anaïs Nin can be used for inspiration and for reference. The reason 365 quotations are presented here is so that there is literally a quotation for each day of the year.

      Of course, it is my hope that the reader will be inspired to investigate the sources from which favorite quotations come; to read them in context of the complete work is a meaningful and satisfying endeavor.

      —Paul Herron, March 2021

      LUST FOR LIFE

      * 1 *

      To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I want to live only for ecstasy. Nothing else affects me. Small doses, moderate loves, all the demi-teintes—all these leave me cold. I like extravagance, heat…sexuality which bursts the thermometer! I’m neurotic, perverted, destructive, fiery, dangerous —lava, inflammable, unrestrained. I feel like a jungle animal who is escaping captivity.

      —Incest, pg. 101

      * 2 *

      I look at my life as fiction, as an adventure story—something to be worked through.

      —Conversations with Anaïs Nin, pp. 230-231

      * 3 *

      All the pleasure I take in luxury, I willingly surrender to that awesome, religious pleasure I get from creating life, hope, sanity, desire, hunger around me. I feel a deep pleasure when others enjoy. It is deeper than any other.

      —Nearer the Moon, pg. 46

      * 4 *

      I am the kind of dangerous dreamer who executes all his reveries, wishes, words, promises, plans. The wildest and the lightest. A wish for me is not a game: it’s a creation.

      —Diary 2, pg. 192

      * 5 *

      It took me a lifetime to know that happiness is a quiet thing, not a peak of ecstasy.

      —Diary of Others, 1955

      * 6 *

      When I first faced pain I was shattered. When I first met failure, defeat, denial, loss, death, I died. Not today. I believe in my power, in my magic, and I do not die. I survive, I love, live, continue.

      —Mirages, pg. 245

      * 7 *

      I get furious at stairways, furious at doors, at walls, furious at everyday life which interferes with the continuity of ecstasy.

      —House of Incest, pg. 44

      * 8 *

      His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo

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