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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.
Written by Anais Nin
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Written by Anais Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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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.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Written by Anais Nin
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
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