More quotes by Anaïs Nin

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
"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."
"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."