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Anaïs Nin

Anais Nin




Full Name: Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell

Birthdate: February 21, 1903
Birthplace: Neuilly, France
Date of Death: January 14, 1977

Occupation: Author
Profile: Best known for The Diary of Anaïs Nin.

Website: http://www.anaïs-nin.de/
Number of Quotes: 5




Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

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