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I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
Tropic of Capricorn
Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
The Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
I have no brakes on... analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
The Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
The Diary of Ana�s Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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