Anais Nin
Quotations
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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.” -Anais Nin
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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” -Anais Nin
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“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.” -Anais Nin
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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.” -Anais Nin
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“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” -Anais Nin
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -Anais Nin
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“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.” -Anais Nin
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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.” -Anais Nin
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“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?” -Anais Nin
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“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.” -Anais Nin
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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” -Anais Nin
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“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?” -Anais Nin
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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.” -Anais Nin
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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” -Anais Nin
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“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.” -Anais Nin
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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.” -Anais Nin
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“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.” -Anais Nin
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. – Anais Nin
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