We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

Quote by Anais Nin

Topics: Life Quotes

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images...

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images...

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

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

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring...

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring...

People living deeply have no fear of death.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it...

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it...

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

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

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

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

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

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in...

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to...

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to...

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard....

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard....

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year...

When I'm out with my girlfriends at the bar, and I see some young 18-year...

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight...

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight...