These quotes of Anais Nin, French-born American diarist, essayist, and novelist, touch on themes of perception, courage, love, and self-expression, which were central to her writing and philosophy.
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
“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.”
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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