"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
"Adolescence is like cactus."
Source: The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939). Book by Anais Nin, 1970.
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Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
Anais Nin was a French-Cuban-American diarist and writer known for her exploration of love, identity, and the human psyche in works like 'Delta of Venus'.
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"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."
"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am."
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist."
"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."