Anais Nin

Anais Nin

Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, known professionally as Anaïs Nin, was a French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of composer Joaquín Nin and Rosa Culmell, a classically trained singer.

8 Quotes

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
— Anais Nin
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."
— Anais Nin
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
— Anais Nin
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
— Anais Nin
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."
— Anais Nin
"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life."
— Anais Nin
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."
— Anais Nin
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."
— Anais Nin

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