“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
“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.”
DeathAll Quotes by Anais Nin
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Knowledge“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“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
Life“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
Life“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
Good“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
Death“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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
Travel“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“Dreams are necessary to life.”
Dreams“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“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“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“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
Dreams“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
Love“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
Death“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
Dad“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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Courage