More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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.
You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
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.
I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.
