Anaïs Nin

"Dreams are necessary to life."

"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"

"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."

"People living deeply have no fear of death."

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."

"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."

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

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

"Living never wore one so much as the effort not to live."

"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"

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"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."

"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."

"Dreams are necessary to life."

"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."

"When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness."

"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 reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often."

"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."