Anais Nin

Either one fails in one’s art or in one’s life.

Anais Nin

Guilt is the one burden human beings can’t bear alone.

Anais Nin

How wrong it is for woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than set out to create it herself.

Anais Nin

I am not always just living, just following all my fantasies; I come up for air, for understanding.

Anais Nin

I cannot live without love. Love is at the root of my being.

Anais Nin

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.

Anais Nin

I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.

Anais Nin

I have created myself a soul, big as the world, that leaks all over, and I have to keep calling for the plumber.

Anais Nin

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Anais Nin

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

Anais Nin