The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
ANAIS NINCompassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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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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Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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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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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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You fall in love with people’s minds.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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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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The 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.
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