Anais Nin

“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.”

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”

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

“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.”

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