More quotes by Anaïs Nin

"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."
"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."
"life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat."
"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."
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."