More quotes by Anaïs Nin

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
"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."
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?"
"One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy."