All Anais Nin Quotes
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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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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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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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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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
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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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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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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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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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