Anais Nin Quotes
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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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 only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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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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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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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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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.
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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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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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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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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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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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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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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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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.