Anaïs Nin's quote

Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
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.
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934