More quotes by Anaïs Nin

"For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself."
"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."
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."