If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Anais Nin Quotations
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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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.
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.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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.