The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
ANAIS NINWhen you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
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Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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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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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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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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