Nin Quotes

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

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 in it.

At five o'clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.

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