The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
ANAIS NINLiving never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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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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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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