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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

This celebrated volume begins when Nin is about to publish her first book and ends when she leaves Paris for New York. Edited and with a Preface by Gunther tuhlmann; Index.

(11 total)

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Anaïs Nin (11)

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

Tagged: Friendship, Friends, Best Friends

“...if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, love & relationship, Love & Connection

“I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

Tagged: Life Challenges, Observation

“Don’t wait for it,’ I said. ‘Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened up to me.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

Tagged: Creation, World, Self-Reliance, Action, Start now

“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

Tagged: Living, Courage, strength, Experience, Happiness

“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Adventure, Mistakes

“Already I realize certain feelings I was not aware of, like the fear of being hurt. I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

Tagged: Feelings, Sensitivity, Love, Understanding

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

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

Tagged: Friendship Quotes, Friends, BFF

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

Tagged: Friendship Quotes, BFF, Friend Quotes

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreaming

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com

Tagged: weird loving friendship, Friend, World, inside of us, arrival