Anais Nin
"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."
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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."