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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.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Back Bring Country Dreams Friend Kite Know Life Like Love New New Life New Love Space Throw Will You Your Your Dreams

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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.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Arrive Born Each Friend Meeting New New World Only Represents Until Us World

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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Forever Lives Other Seek Some Souls States Travel Us

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

~Anais Nin

Topics: See Them Things

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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Accompanied Bird Coffee Escape Fire Joy Leaf Me Morning Rays Settled Sun Supported Task Through Walked Window

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Courage Life Proportion Shrinks

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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.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Becoming Combination Death Elect Fail Go Kind Life Life Is A People Process Remain State States Through Where Wish

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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.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Action Actions Again Dream Dreams Form Highest Highest Form Interdependence Living Pass Produces Reality Stems

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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Always Does Knowledge More Mystery Possession Sense Wonder

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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

Topics: Art Cease Familiar Function Magic Meaning New Our Perception Renew Scene See Shakes Up Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 21st, 1903

Died: January 14th, 1977

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