More quotes by Anaïs Nin

"The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."
"I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them."
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"Societies in decline have no use for visionaries."
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."