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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
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.
It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.
No Country for Old Men
The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
The Crossing
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.
No Country for Old Men
Things happen to you, they happen. They don't ask first. They don't require your permission.
No Country for Old Men
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
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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