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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
I write emotional algebra.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.
Henry and June: From A Journal of Love - The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana�s Nin (1931-1932)
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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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