Anais Nin

Memory is a great betrayer.

Anais Nin

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

Anais Nin

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Anais Nin

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.

Anais Nin

Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

Anais Nin

Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

Anais Nin

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

Anais Nin

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

Anais Nin

Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Anais Nin

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

Anais Nin