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“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”

- Anais Nin

Source/Notes: Diary Of Anais Nin Volume 4 1944-1947: Vol. 4 (1944-1947), p. 71

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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

- Anais Nin

Source/Notes: Attributed. In 2013, Elizabeth Appell claimed she had written the poem in 1979: http://anaisninblog.skybluepress.com/2013/03/who-wrote-risk-is-the-mystery-solved/

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“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.”

- Anais Nin

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

- Anais Nin

Source/Notes: Henry and June: From A Journal of Love: the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–1932), first published in 1986

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“Dreams are necessary to life.”

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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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“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”

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“Good things happen to those who hustle.”

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“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

- Anais Nin

Source/Notes: Diary Of Anais Nin Volume 5 1947-1955: Vol. 5 (1947-1955), p. 70

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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”

- Anais Nin

Source/Notes: March, 1933 - Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

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“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”

- Anais Nin

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“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.”

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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

- Anais Nin

Source/Notes: Henry and June: From A Journal of Love: the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1931–1932), first published in 1986

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“If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.”

- Anais Nin

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