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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

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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. – Anaïs Nin

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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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