Top 41 Quotes by Anais Nin

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

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

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

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