More quotes by Anaïs Nin

"All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished."
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"
"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
"Societies in decline have no use for visionaries."