American - Author | February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977
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.
Anais Nin
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
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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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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 naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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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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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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