Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Some Anais Nin quotes

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.


Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.


Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.


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.


The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.



Quotes on writing:

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.


Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.


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.

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