The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
ANAIS NINThe enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Man can never know the loneliness a woman knows.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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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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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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Each 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.
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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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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 reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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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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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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