Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin Quote

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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.
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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.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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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.
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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 has no use for it.
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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.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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.
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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.
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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