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 Friendship
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. -Anais Nin Religion
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. -Anais Nin Strength
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 Death
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. -Anais Nin Truth
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 Art
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. -Anais Nin Morning
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 Space
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. -Anais Nin Dad
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. -Anais Nin Chance
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 Death
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. -Anais Nin Imagination
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. -Anais Nin Knowledge
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 Women
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. -Anais Nin Truth
