Anais Nin

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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."	Miscellaneous
"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."	Age, Love
"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."	Death, Failure, Hope
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."	Miscellaneous
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."	Friends
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."	Death, Knowledge, Love
"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."	Experience, Happiness, Honesty
"And the day came when the risk it took to remain closed in a bud became more painful than the risk it took to blossom."	Time

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