I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NINWe are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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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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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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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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