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

Anaïs Nin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anaïs Nin

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

Anaïs Nin

Love is the axis and breath of my life. The art I produce is a byproduct, an excrescence of love, the song I sing, the joy which must explode, the overabundance — that is all!

Anaïs Nin

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anaïs Nin

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

Anaïs Nin

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

Anaïs Nin

We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

Anaïs Nin

The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.

Anaïs Nin

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

Anaïs 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.

Anaïs Nin

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 strangle you with his panic.

Anaïs Nin