Quote by Anaïs Nin
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete an

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. – Anaïs Nin

Other quotes by Anaïs Nin

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. – Anaïs Nin

Category:
Self-Discovery
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anaïs Nin

Category:
Feminism
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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Writing
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Other Quotes from
Life
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. – Seneca

Category:
Life

Life…is like a grapefruit. Its orange and squishy , and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. – Douglas Adams

Category:
Life

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Life

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Life

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But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system – we will have something without heart. – Lee Greenwood

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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

Category:
alone

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. – Charles Olson

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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I put on scuba gear and dived on a coral reef. Its just the unbelievable fact that you can move in three dimensions. – David Attenborough

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