Anaïs Nin

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.

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.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

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 possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.