I had been struck by the ...

I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.
 Anaïs Nin

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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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.
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