Rose Jeanne Anaïs Edelmira Antolina Nin:
(Neuilly-sur-Seine, 21 February 1903 – Los Angeles, California, 14 January 1977).
French-Cuban writer, known mainly for her diaries covering a period of forty years, beginning when she was 12.
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps but other people emphasize my loneliness.
We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.
I can select something I love and absorb myself in it.
The secret of joy is to be able to handle suffering.
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
I love your silences, they are like mine.
You cannot save people, you can only love them.
