The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
ANAIS NINThe real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.
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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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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
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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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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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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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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, 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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