“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”
— Anais Nin
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Age does not protect you from love.
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
— Anais Nin
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Category: love
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a
“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.”
— Anais Nin
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We travel, some of us forever, to
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
— Anais Nin
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People living deeply have no fear of
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
— Anais Nin
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I stopped loving my father a long
“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
— Anais Nin
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
— Anais Nin
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It is the function of art to
“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.”
— Anais Nin
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Life is a process of becoming, a
“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.”
— Anais Nin
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People living deeply have no fear of
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
— Anais Nin
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Dreams are necessary to life.
“Dreams are necessary to life.”
— Anais Nin
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Category: life
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