The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
ANAIS NINThrow 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.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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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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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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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.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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