Anais Nin Quotes
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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.
Anais Nin
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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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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.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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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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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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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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