Home » Quote » Anaïs Nin » „We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.“ „We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.“ — Anaïs Nin Tags:Life Related quotes „That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.“ — Chuck Palahniuk „Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.“ — Anaïs Nin „I tasted life.“ — Emily Dickinson „In life's most significant moments we are always alone.“ — Paulo Coelho „My life closed twice before its close;It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveilA third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive,As these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven,And all we need of hell.“ — Emily Dickinson