Anais Nin

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

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
-Anais Nin

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

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
-Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.
-Anais Nin

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
-Anais Nin

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
-Anais Nin

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
-Anais Nin

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
-Anais Nin