Anaïs Nin: Living

“I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”

“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.”

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

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

“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.”

“In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.”

“To withhold from living is to die … the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.”

“Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh … without destroying that moment.”

“To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.”

“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits”

“When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.”

“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.”

“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break myself. I want to live only for ecstasy. I’m neurotic, perverted, destructive, fiery, dangerous - lava, inflammable, unrestrained.”

“All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.”

“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.”

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

“How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.”