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There were always in me two women at least one woman desperate and bewildered who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene as upon a stage conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses helplessness despair and present to the world only a smile an eagerness curiosity enthusiasm interest.Anais Nin
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To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic living use.Anais Nin
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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.Anais Nin
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.Anais Nin
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Each friend represents a world in us a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.Anais Nin
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[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.Anais Nin
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What I cannot love I overlook.Anais Nin
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.Anais Nin
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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.Anais Nin
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness of withering of tarnishing.Anais Nin
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.Anais Nin
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I was thinking of my patients and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate they were in despair.Anais Nin
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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself because it always changes me.Anais Nin
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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.Anais Nin
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I postpone death by living by suffering by error by risking by giving by losing.Anais Nin
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When one is pretending the entire body revolts.Anais Nin
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Beware of allowing a tactless word rebuttal a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.Anais Nin
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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.Anais Nin
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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 a small scale by successive developments cellularly like a laborious mosaic.Anais Nin
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A war regarded as inevitable or even probable and therefore much prepared for has a very good chance of eventually being fought.Anais Nin
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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 scene and as if by magic we see a new meaning in it.Anais Nin
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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.Anais Nin
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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.Anais Nin
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.Anais Nin
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.Anais Nin
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.Anais Nin
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.Anais Nin
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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, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.Anais Nin
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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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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.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.Anais Nin
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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.Anais Nin
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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 scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.Anais Nin
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.Anais Nin
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?Anais Nin
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.Anais Nin