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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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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

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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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Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. – Baker Brownell, The College and the Community, 1952

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One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is four or five big days that change everything. – Riding in Cars with Boys, Beverly Donofrio (book), Morgan Ward (screenplay)

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Lifes most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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