More Anais Nin...

~Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.~

~Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again: and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.~

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

~How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.~

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

~It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning to it.~