“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
“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.”
CourageAll Quotes by Anais Nin
“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“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“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.”
Life“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Religion“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
Death“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
Friendship“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
Life“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“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“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
Good“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
Dad“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“Dreams are necessary to life.”
Dreams“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”
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“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“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
Love“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Knowledge“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Age