Quotes by Anaïs Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin

“They clutch and cling and howl when I leave them, but how badly they love.”

“Over and over again I sail towards joy, which is never in the room with me, but always near me, across the way, like those rooms full of gayety one sees from the street, or the gayety in the street...”