Anais Nin

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. ”

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way. ”

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

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle. ”

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

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

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. ”