Anais Nin

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

- Anais Nin, author

Anais Nin

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

- Anais Nin, author

Anais Nin

"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, author

Anais Nin

"We don't see things as they are, we seem them as we are"

- Anais Nin, author

Anais Nin

"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, author

Anais Nin

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its 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, author