Anaïs Nin

Dreams are necessary to life.

dream


Anaïs Nin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

age


Anaïs 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.

art


Anaïs Nin

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.

art


Anaïs Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

courage


Anaïs 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 naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

courage


Anaïs Nin

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

dad


Anaïs Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.

death


Anaïs Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

death


Anaïs 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.

dreams


Anaïs Nin

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

dreams


Anaïs Nin

Dreams are necessary to life.

dreams


Anaïs Nin

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

dreams


Anaïs Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.

fear


Anaïs Nin

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

friendship


Anaïs Nin

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

friendship


Anaïs Nin

Good things happen to those who hustle.

good


Anaïs Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

imagination


Anaïs Nin

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

knowledge


Anaïs Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.

life


Anaïs Nin

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

life


Anaïs 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.

life


Anaïs Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

life


Anaïs Nin

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

life


Anaïs Nin

Dreams are necessary to life.

life


Anaïs Nin

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

life


Anaïs Nin

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

love


Anaïs Nin

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

love


Anaïs 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.

love


Anaïs Nin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

love


Anaïs Nin

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

love


Anaïs Nin

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

love


Anaïs Nin

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.

love


Anaïs Nin

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

love


Anaïs 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 naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

men


Anaïs Nin

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

morning


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