We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. – Anaïs Nin
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. – Anais Nin
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. – Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin
We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are. – Anais Nin
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are. – Anaïs Nin
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. – Anais Nin
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
Dreams are necessary to life. – Anais Nin
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. – Anais Nin
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. – Anaïs Nin
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself? – Anais Nin
You cannot save people. You can only love them. – Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anais Nin
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. – Anais Nin
I love your silences, they are like mine. – Anaïs Nin
Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. – Anais Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. – Anais Nin
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. – Anais Nin
Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality. – Anais Nin
You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars. – Anais Nin
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
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves. – Anais Nin
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. – 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
Guilt is the one burden human beings can’t bear alone. – Anais Nin
I write emotional algebra. – Anais Nin
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. – Anais Nin
He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. – Anais Nin
“Our age has need of violence,” he writes. And he is violence. – Anais Nin
We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. – Anaïs Nin
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