One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.More Anais Nin quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.More Anais Nin quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.More Anais Nin quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.More Anais Nin quotes [07/07/2011 09:07:35]

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.More Anais Nin quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]