More quotes by Anaïs Nin

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle."
"She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself."
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest."
"All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished."