A biography for Anais Ninhasn’t been written yet.
“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.”
“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
“If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.”
“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
“It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.”
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
“The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.”
“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”
“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”