{"author":"Anais Nin","author_id":"Anais+Nin","total_quotes":43,"quotes":[{"text":"I postpone death by living  by suffering  by error  by risking  by giving  by losing.","author":"Anais Nin","tags":["risks"],"id":188,"author_id":"Anais+Nin"},{"text":"People living deeply have no fear of death.","author":"Anais Nin","tags":["anxiety","about","future"],"id":2678,"author_id":"Anais+Nin"},{"text":"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.","author":"Anais Nin","tags":["world","friend","meeting "],"id":3238,"author_id":"Anais+Nin"},{"text":"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.","author":"Anais Nin","tags":["see","things","them "],"id":22843,"author_id":"Anais+Nin"},{"text":"Beware of allowing a tactless word  rebuttal  a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.","author":"Anais Nin","tags":["self","control"],"id":45649,"author_id":"Anais+Nin"},{"text":"There are very few human beings who receive the truth  complete and staggering  by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment  on a small scale  by successive developments  cellularly  like a laborious mosaic.","author":"Anais Nin","tags":["time"],"id":49758,"author_id":"Anais+Nin"},{"text":"One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life  and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith  one's love  when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.","author":"Anais Nin","tags":["creating","positive","change"],"id":52503,"author_id":"Anais+Nin"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anais Nin","tags":["perception","magic","meaning "],"id":55370,"author_id":"Anais+Nin"},{"text":"She lacks confidence  she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.","author":"Anais Nin","tags":["self","acceptance"],"id":61900,"author_id":"Anais+Nin"},{"text":"I will not be just a tourist in the world of images  just watching images passing by which I cannot live in  make love to  possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.","author":"Anais Nin","tags":["happiness"],"id":101864,"author_id":"Anais+Nin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}