Anaïs Nin

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.
-Anaïs Nin

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all,there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
-Anaïs Nin

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
-Anaïs Nin

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

...nothing changes the nature of man. I know too
well that man can only change himself psychologically,
and that fear and greed make him inhuman, and it
is only a change of roles we attain with each revolution,
just a change of men in power, that is all, the evil remains.
-Anaïs Nin

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