Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no re... - Anaïs Nin

"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."

"How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?"

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

"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."

"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."