Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anais NinThe artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
Anais NinI believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
Anais NinThey courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.
Anais NinTo withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
Anais NinThat is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
Anais Nin