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

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.
~ Anaïs Nin ~












More Anaïs Nin quotes
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
"Dreams are necessary to life.
"When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that par...
"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 s...
"All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
"I am made only for passion; it is the temperature of love that I cannot endure. I am afraid, and I think it is death- everything but passion seems lik...
"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
"Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods,no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scen...
"Down the rusty bars of ladders to the undergrounds of the night propitious to the first man and woman at the beginning of the world. where there were ...
"You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out...
"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 ...
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.