Anais Nin Quotes:
It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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.
Anais Nin
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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
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.
Anais Nin
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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais 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.
Anais Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Anais Nin
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death.
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
Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais 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.
Anais Nin
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin
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.
Anais Nin