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. Furthermore, it dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness of withering of tarnishing.

— Anais Nin

One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

— Anais Nin

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

She lacks confidence she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. Furthermore, she does not dare to be herself.

— Anais Nin

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

— Anais Nin

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

— Anais Nin

There are very few human beings who receive the truth complete and staggering by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment on a small scale by successive developments cellular like a laborious mosaic.

— Anais Nin

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

There were always in me two women at least one woman desperate and bewildered who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene as upon a stage conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses helplessness despair and present to the world only a smile an eagerness curiosity enthusiasm interest.

— Anais Nin

To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic living use.

— Anais Nin