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Anais Nin
February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

   

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

   

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

   

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

   

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

   

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

   

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

   

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.

   

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

   

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

   

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

   

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.

   

People living deeply have no fear of death.

   

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.

   

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.

   

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

   

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

   

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

   

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

   

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

   

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