Anais Nin Quotes About Literature
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One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
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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.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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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.
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