Life is a process of becoming, a...

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

- Anaïs Nin

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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

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

- Anaïs Nin

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

- Anaïs Nin

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

- Anaïs Nin

life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.

- Anaïs Nin

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.

- Anaïs Nin

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