Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin
2
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.
Anais Nin
3
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais Nin
4
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin
5
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais Nin
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin
10
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.
Anais Nin
11
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
12
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.
Anais Nin
13
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Anais Nin
14
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
15
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin
16
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin
17
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin
18
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
19
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin
20
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Anais Nin
21
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin
22
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin
23
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin
24
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
25
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
26
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anais Nin
27
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin
28
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin
