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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

Nature, Risk, Painful

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin

Men, Strength, Courage

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

Friendship, Friend, Until

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin

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.
Anais Nin

Dreams, Life, Love

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

Woman, Wrong, Rather

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Anais Nin

Love, Death, Natural

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.
Anais Nin

Life, Death, Through

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin

Love, Age, Protect

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

Art, Writing, Through

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

Courage, Life, Expands

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin

Dreams, Reality, Living

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

Religion, Political, Become

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin

Life, Adversity, Lose

Good things happen to those who hustle.
Anais Nin

Good, Happen, Hustle

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin

Death, Giving, Living

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anais Nin

Love, Reason, Seek

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin

Dreams, Life, Necessary

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin

Life, Death, Fear

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anais Nin

Love, Greatest, Him

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin

Love, Incapacity

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Anais Nin

Travel, Lives, Forever

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
Anais Nin

Truth, Human, Small

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin

Writer, Role, Unable

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin

Art, Meaning, Perception

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 21, 1903

Died: January 14, 1977

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