Anais Nin

The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.

Anais Nin

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

Anais Nin

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Anais Nin

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.

Anais Nin

To love and to labor is the sum of living.

Anais Nin

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

Anais Nin

Violence is a symptom of impotence.

Anais Nin

We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

Anais 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.

Anais Nin