Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Quote by Anais Nin
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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Anais Nin Quotes
- 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.
- The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
- People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
- 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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