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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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. – Anaïs Nin

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How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someones wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. – Marilyn Monroe

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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – E. M. Forster

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. – Thomas Jefferson

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