One handles truths like dynamite.
ANAIS NINThe dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Your eyes make me shy.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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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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