People who want a sane, ...

People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
 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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 Anaïs Nin
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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 Anaïs Nin
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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 Anaïs Nin
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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 Anaïs Nin
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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 Anaïs Nin