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 NINSometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
More Anais Nin Quotes
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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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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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 will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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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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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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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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