Quotations

"A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it."

— Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse, born 1820

"My madness is my love towards mankind."

— Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer, born 1890

"Now I will dance you the war…. The war which you did not prevent."

— Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian ballet dancer, born 1890

"My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in awhile I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture."

— Leonard Nimoy, American actor, born 1931

"The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have."

— Leonard Nimoy, American actor, born 1931

"Live Long and Prosper."

— Leonard Nimoy, American actor, born 1931

"I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery."

— Anais Nin, American author, born 1903

"He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt."

— Anais Nin, American author, born 1903

"There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work."

— Anais Nin, American author, born 1903

"Pain is something to master, not to wallow in."

— Anais Nin, American author, born 1903

"When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body."

— Anais Nin, American author, born 1903

"I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt."

— Anais Nin, American author, born 1903

"How do I look to him?" she asked herself. She got up and brought a long mirror towards the window. She stood it on the floor against a chair. Then she sat down in front of it on the rug and, facing it, slowly opened her legs. The sight was enchanting. The skin was flawless, the vulva, roseate and full. She thought it was like the gum plant leaf with its secret milk that the pressure of the finger could bring out, the odorous moisture that came like the moisture of the sea shells. So was Venus born of the sea with this little kernel of salty honey in her, which only caresses could bring out of the hidden recesses of her body."

— Anais Nin, American author, born 1903

"He had not touched me. He did not need to. His presence had affected me in such a way that I felt as if he had caressed me for a long time."

— Anais Nin, American author, born 1903