Tag: Anais Nin
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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.
Anais Nin
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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.
Anais Nin
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Anais Nin
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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.
Anais Nin
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We write to taste life twice: in the moment and in retrospection.
Anais Nin
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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.
Anais Nin
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin
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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.
Anais Nin
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin