“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
Dreams
“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
FriendshipAll Quotes by Anais Nin
“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
Love“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
Imagination“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Religion“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.”
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.”
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.”
Dreams“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Nature“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Courage“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.”
Courage“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.”
Friendship“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
Friendship“Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”
Truth“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
Life“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Age“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Knowledge“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.”
Love“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.”
Love“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
Dad“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
Death