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
- Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Dreams are necessary to life.
- 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.
- I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
- 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.
- What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
- Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Best Quotes
- I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
- I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
- Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
- People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
- We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.