Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk
Anais Nin Novelist
Gender: Female
Citizenship: United States
Born: Feb 21, 1903
Died: Jan 14, 1977
Anaïs Nin was an author born to Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba but lived most of her life in the United States where she became an established author. She wrote journals, novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
dad & time
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
age, age, love & love
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
knowledge
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
imagination
People living deeply have no fear of death.
death, fear & life
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
nature
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
friendship & love
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
dreams, life & love
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
death
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
courage & life