Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.


Anais Nin

896

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.


Anais Nin

896

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.


Anais Nin

896

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.


Anais Nin

896

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

896

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.


Anais Nin

896

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.


Anais Nin

896

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

896

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.


Anais Nin

896

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

896

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.


Anais Nin

896

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.


Anais Nin

896

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

896

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.


Anais Nin

896

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

896

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?


Anais Nin

896

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.


Anais Nin

896

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.


Anais Nin

896

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.


Anais Nin

896

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.


Anais Nin

896

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