To mistake ugliness for reality is one of the frauds of the realistic school [of writing]. A hunger for the unknown and an aspiration toward beauty were inseparable from civilization. In America the word art was distorted to mean artificial.
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.
- 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
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…
Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life. - Anais Nin
Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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…
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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