The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.Anais Nin
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Writer · 1903 – 1977
Anaïs Nin, French-born American diarist and novelist. She is celebrated for her multi-volume Diary, begun when she was eleven, and for works such as Delta of Venus.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.Anais Nin
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.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
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life.Anais Nin
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.Anais Nin
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.Anais Nin
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.Anais Nin