“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.”
Art
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
ReligionAll Quotes by Anais Nin
“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
Dreams“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
Death“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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Knowledge“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
Death“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.”
Truth“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“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“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“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Age“Dreams are necessary to life.”
Dreams“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
Good“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“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Religion“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Nature“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
Love“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
Life“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
Love“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
Dad