quotes by Anais Nin

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— Anais Nin

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anais Nin

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anais Nin

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anais Nin

""We write in order to live life twice.""
— Anais Nin

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
— Anais Nin

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
— Anais Nin

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. "
— Anais Nin

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
— Anais Nin

"Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying "You gave me the wrong key!""
— Anais Nin

"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."
— Anais Nin

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
— Anais Nin

"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."
— Anais Nin

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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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— Anais Nin

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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— Anais Nin

"I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ"
— Anais Nin

"Good things happen to those who hustle."
— Anais Nin

"From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life. "
— Anais Nin

"if what proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then i will never know happiness. for i am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."
— Anais Nin

"There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest."
— Anais Nin