Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
ANAIS NINAnd the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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