Anais Nin

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless. ”

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. ”

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. ”