I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. Anais Nin on time
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anais Nin on travel
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. Anais Nin on truth
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning. Anais Nin on truth
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin on inspiration