More quotes by Anaïs Nin

"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
"Dreams are necessary to life."
"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."
"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."