(*Inhale*) Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, (phew!) otherwise known as Anais Nin, is a very prosperous Cuban, Spanish, French author, although not very well known.
Living mostly in France and then New York, she is mostly known for her diaries, which she wrote since she could hold a pen, that reveal insightful and precocious thoughts for such a young woman of her time. Although she was not very well known during her life, her words have lived on because of the timeless and profound sentiments.
1. "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
2. "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to build it herself."
3. "The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say."
4. "When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."
5. "Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live."
6. "Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."
7. "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
8. "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom."
9. "People living deeply have no fear of death."
10. "Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves."
