Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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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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Dreams are necessary to life.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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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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Willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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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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