Anais Nin Quotes

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin

Human, Made, Poverty

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's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Anais Nin

Woman, Human, Above

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Anais Nin

Life, Personal, Beyond

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin

Love, Live, Joy

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

Dad, Time, Father

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

Reality, Try, Free

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Anais Nin

Father, Human, Child

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

Knowledge, Sense, Wonder

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

Live, Moment, Dream

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais Nin

Human, Precious, Rare

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin

Life, Book, Person

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

Life, Dreams, Together

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin

Live, Living, Effort

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais Nin

Love, Friendship, Real

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin

Yourself, Others, Tolerable

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin

Truth, Words, Universe

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin

Writing, Living, Ideas

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 21, 1903

Died: January 14, 1977

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