There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

Anaïs Nin

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.

Anaïs Nin

Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

Anaïs 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.

Anaïs 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.

Anaïs Nin

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

Anaïs Nin

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

Anaïs Nin

We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

Anaïs Nin

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Anaïs Nin

We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

Anaïs 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.

Anaïs Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Anaïs Nin