American - Author | February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
FriendshipLoveRealCannotOverlook
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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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.
LoveLiveJoyWorldWillWatching
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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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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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
LiveEffortLivingNeverOutMuch
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
LifeDreamsTogetherActionMust
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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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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