It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.Anais Nin
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Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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.
Anais Nin
People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
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.
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