Anais Nin Quotes (86+)

You don't save me. You enable me to save myself.

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today will not be what I think and feel tomorrow.

I do not want to be the angel of any home; I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

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

You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

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

I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.

I write emotional algebra.

I am like a snake who has already begun to devour the victim and who, as he grows bigger, must devour more and more to satisfy his hunger.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing, but in the midst of living.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.