Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1:

Quotes

• “I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as or...”
• “I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out m...”
• “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a...”
• “A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afrai...”
• “I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.”
• “I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.”