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.

Mereka yang tidak bisa hidup dengan rasa puas sering menjadi perusak kehidupan.

Tidak apa-apa bagi seorang wanita, di atas segalanya, menjadi manusia. Saya seorang wanita pertama-tama.

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.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Cinta mati karena kita tidak tahu cara mengisi kembali sumbernya. Cinta mati karena kebutaan, kesalahan, dan pengkhianatan.

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.

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.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

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

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

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.

Setiap teman mewakili dunia dalam diri kita, dunia mungkin tidak lahir sampai mereka tiba, dan itu hanya dengan pertemuan ini dunia baru telah lahir.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

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

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

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