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Anais Nin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

-Anais Nin

age

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

art

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

art

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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courage

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

courage

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

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dad

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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death

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's 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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death

People living deeply have no fear of death.

-Anais Nin

death

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

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death

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.

-Anais Nin

dreams

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

-Anais Nin

dreams

Dreams are necessary to life.

-Anais Nin

dreams

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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dreams

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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fear

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.

-Anais Nin

friendship

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

-Anais Nin

friendship

Good things happen to those who hustle.

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good

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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imagination

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

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knowledge

People living deeply have no fear of death.

-Anais Nin

life

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.

-Anais Nin

life

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.

-Anais Nin

life

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

-Anais Nin

life

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

-Anais Nin

life

Dreams are necessary to life.

-Anais Nin

life

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

-Anais Nin

life

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

-Anais Nin

love

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

-Anais Nin

love

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.

-Anais Nin

love

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

-Anais Nin

love

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.

-Anais Nin

love

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

-Anais Nin

love

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

-Anais Nin

love

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

-Anais Nin

love

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

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

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.

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.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

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.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

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.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Good things happen to those who hustle.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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.

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.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Dreams are necessary to life.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

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.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

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.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

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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