Best Anais Nin Lines
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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…
Art
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Adopt
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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.
Action
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Adversity
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
Good
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him,…
Anxiety
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Chance
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Explanation
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
Death
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Abnormality
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Dreams are necessary to life.
Business
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
All
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Forever
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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…
Acquire
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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,…
Accompanied
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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…
Action
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Free
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Ahead
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Ago
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
All
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Doe
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Contact
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Always Expands
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Action
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Inspirational
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