In chaos, there is fertility.
ANAIS NINEach friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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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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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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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