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Famous Anais Nin Quotes
“To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard”
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
“Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.”
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
“It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.”
“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”
“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.”
“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.”
“Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.”
“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.”