Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. —
Anaïs Nim

If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses —
Anaïs Nim

The obstacle became his alibi for weakness. —
Anaïs Nin

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often. —
Anaïs Nin

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it. —
Anaïs Nin

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. —
Anaïs Nin
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. —
Woody Allen

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. —
Woody Allen

I exist as I am, that is enough. —
Walt Whitman

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. —
Carl Jung

(tangent to Man in the Mirror)