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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
20+ Quotes by Anais Nin
A curated collection of 20 inspirational quotes by Anais Nin on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"Dreams are necessary to life."
— Anais Nin
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
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"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"
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"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."
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"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."
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"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
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"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
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"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."
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."