The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Quote by Anais Nin
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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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Anais Nin Quotes
- We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
- People living deeply have no fear of death.
- 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.
- There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- People living deeply have no fear of death.
- 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.
- 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.
- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
- Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
- Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
- I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record.
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
- The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.
- My nature just changes.
- Natural history is not about producing fables.