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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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.Anaïs Nin
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
Anais Nin
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
Anaïs Nin
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
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