Anais Nin
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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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.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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.
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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.
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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
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