There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

— Anaïs Nin
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

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Relationship Sad Book About Love Broken Heart Hurt

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

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Courage Life Deep About Life Positive Life Encouragement

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

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Creativity Deep About Life Emotional Emotion Fiction

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

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Inspirational for Women

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

— Anaïs Nin
Romantic Unconditional Love New Relationship Love for Husband

You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.

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My diary seems to keep me whole.

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Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one’s self.

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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.

— Anaïs Nin

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

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I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension.

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Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

— Anaïs Nin

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman.

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I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.

— Anaïs Nin

I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.

— Anaïs Nin

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

— Anaïs Nin

Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.

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Your eyes make me shy.

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No, this was a melting together, a vanishing together into a soft, dark womb of warmth.

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I love my mystery, I love the abstract world I live in, the delicate, profound, vague, obscure, voluptuously, wordless sensations I experience.

— Anaïs Nin
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