Anaïs Nin

"Only the united beat of sex and the heart can create ecstasy."

- Anaïs Nin

"He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt."

- Anaïs Nin

"Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you."

- Anaïs Nin

"When you possess light within, you see it externally."

- Anaïs Nin

"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me."

- Anaïs Nin

"We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself."

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Anaïs Nin

"Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Anaïs Nin

"to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."

- Anaïs Nin

"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am."

- Anaïs Nin

"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can't be loved as I am."

- Anaïs Nin

"In the journal, I am at ease."

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Anaïs Nin

"You cannot save people, you can just love them."

- Anaïs Nin

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

- Anaïs Nin

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."

- Anaïs Nin

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection."

- Anaïs Nin