Author: Anais Nin

Quotes

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

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

- Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

- Anais Nin

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

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

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

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

- Anais Nin

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Anais Nin

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

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

- Anais Nin

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.

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

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