“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”
Imagination
“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
LoveAll Quotes by Anais Nin
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Knowledge“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“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“Dreams are necessary to life.”
Dreams“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
Life“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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Courage“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“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
Death“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“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“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“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Age“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Religion“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”
Love“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“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
Friendship“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
Travel