ANAIS NIN

“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.”

“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”

“There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.”

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

“You cannot save people. You can only love them.”

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”

“I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.”

“The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or a woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.”