Anais Nin Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”

“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”

“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.”

“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”

“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”

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

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