Anais Nin

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Orang yang hidup dengan sungguh-sungguh tidak takut akan kematian.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Saya mencari hal-hal nyata dari kehidupan. Drama yang luar biasa.

Kami tidak melihat hal-hal seperti diri mereka, kami melihatnya seperti diri kami.

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.

Anda tidak dapat menyelamatkan orang, Anda hanya dapat mencintai mereka.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

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.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Dreams are necessary to life.

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.

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.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Saya suka keheningan Anda, mereka seperti milik saya.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

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.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

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

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