Why for almost thirty years now I have loved Anais Nin

 "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

These quotes and images exude in desire and denude in locality why for almost thirty years now I have loved Anais Nin.

"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."

 There are so many ingredients necessary to own your life and hove the quality of life you want. First among equals is to take the risk of being you; second among equals is surrounding yourself by similar minded individuals; third but certainly not last - luck!

"You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you’re not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn’t a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now."

Anais Nin, her lover Henry Miller, and their whole generation of risk-takers, clowns, artists, vagabonds, and aesthetes; the creative generation, the Paris guild, the surrealist groups, the utopians and early environmentalists, humanists, and pacifists all shape the best aspects of our world today.

  
 "People living deeply have no fear of death."

And that is that.