Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
ANAIS NINLife is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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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 naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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