Anaïs Nin

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

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.
– Anaïs Nin

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot love in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
– Anaïs Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
– Anaïs Nin

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
– Anaïs Nin

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

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
– 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

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
– Anaïs Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
– Anaïs Nin