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Anais Nin Quotes: 8

  • 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.

  • Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

  • 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.

  • Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

  • The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

  • What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

  • 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.

  • Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.