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. Anais Nin breathecryculture Change image and share on social
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. Anais Nin choosecompelcourage share on social
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. Anais Nin deeplyexpandlife Change image and share on social
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. Anais Nin arrivebearfriend Change image and share on social
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. Anais Nin accompanybirdcoffee Change image and share on social
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. Anais Nin effortlivewear Change image and share on social
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin thing Change image and share on social
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. Anais Nin combinationdeathelect Change image and share on social
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. Anais Nin humanwoman Change image and share on social
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anais Nin betrayalblindnessdeath share on social
