Quote by Anais Nin
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are fam

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. – Anais Nin

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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. – Anais Nin

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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. – Anais Nin

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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. – Anais Nin

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