I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Quote by Anais Nin
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Anais Nin Quotes
- 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.
- We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
- Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Dreams are necessary to life.
- 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.
- The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
- 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.
- I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Best Quotes
- When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
- The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
- My business is to prevent the future.
- I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
- I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
- Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.