Anaïs Nin
"People living deeply have no fear of death."
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"One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy."
Anaïs Nin
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle."
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"life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat."
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"She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself."
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"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."
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"We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them."
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"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."
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"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
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"All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished."
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"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."
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"I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness."
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"I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often."
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