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More Quotes by Anaïs Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you; I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.