You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it looks convincingly clear, too clear. And meanwhile, where are you? Not on the clear surface of your ideas, but you have already sunk deeper, into darker regions, so that one only thinks one has been given all your thoughts, one only imagines you have emptied yourself in that clarity. But there are layers and layers - you're bottomless, unfathomable. Your clearness is deceptive. You are the thinker who arouses most confusion in me, most doubt, most disturbance.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, m… - Anais Nin
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, m…
- Anais Nin
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life. - Anais Nin
Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn s… - Anais Nin
I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn s…
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic. - Anais Nin
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. - Anais Nin
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky. - Anais Nin
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the… - Anais Nin
It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the…
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