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

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Risk

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

poem by Anaïs Nin
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The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

quote by Anais Nin
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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.

quote by Anais Nin
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I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self.

Anais Nin in House of Incest
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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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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.

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There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

famous quote by Anais Nin
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing, my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.

classic quote by Anais Nin
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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.

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