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Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

The Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
I have no brakes on... analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.

The Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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.

The Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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.
It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.

No Country for Old Men
The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

The Crossing
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

No Country for Old Men
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