Anais nin

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

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.

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

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

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.