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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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.
Henry and June: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana�s Nin (1931-1932)
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Henry and June: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana�s Nin (1931-1932)
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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.
I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
Henry and June: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana�s Nin (1931-1932)
The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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