Anais Nin

You fall in love with people’s minds.

Anais Nin

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

Anais Nin

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

Anais Nin

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Anais Nin

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

Anais Nin

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

Anais Nin

All creators are unhappy in life. All creators are absolutists.

Anais Nin

All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.

Anais Nin

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

Anais Nin

Although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.

Anais Nin