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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• Anais Nin:

  Dreams are necessary to life.

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  Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

• Anais Nin:

  I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

• Anais Nin:

  Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this me

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  My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

• Anais Nin:

  There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an

• Anais Nin:

  The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mys

• Anais Nin:

  If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have ma

• Anais Nin:

  There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumina

• Anais Nin:

  The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.