Quotes from Anais Nin

Your eyes make me shy.

Wir sehen die Dinge nicht, wie sie sind, wir sehen sie so, wie wir sind.

So bewies mir das Wagnis, dass es nicht zerstörerisch ist, wenn wir unser Innerstes aufs Spiel setzen, wenn wir unseren verborgenen und echten Kern anbieten. Wie können nicht zerstört werden.

Ja sam jedino sposobna zbrajati život, dok tako prepun ne postane nepodnošljiv, odve? snažan, i raspršujem se u krizama histerije, u milijune komadi?a, zbog prevelike koli?ine života... Prava je patnja živjeti u 'unutrašnjosti života'... netko bi me morao u?initi nesvjesnom. Ubiti me. U?initi me neosjetljivom, nemo?nom. Dijelovi mene morali bi umrijeti, ali ja sam sve dobro zaštitila od umiranja.

N-am avut puterea s? te înl?tur din viaÅ£a mea când, biologic, planetar, emoÅ£ional, metafizic, psihanalitic, ar fi trebuit.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

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

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

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

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

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.

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

Your eyes make me shy