Today is the birthday of Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977), author. Anaïs Nin is best remembered as a diarist, her published journals spanned more than 60 years."We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
— 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
"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
"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
"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."
— Anaïs Nin
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
— Anaïs Nin
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
— Anaïs Nin
"Dreams are necessary to life."
— Anaïs Nin
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