The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

About Anaïs Nin

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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell ( AN-eye-EESS NEEN; French: [ana.is nin]; February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977) was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of the composer Joaquín...

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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.

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We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

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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.

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To err is human; to forgive, divine.

—Alexander Pope

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Sometimes the wrong path can lead us to the right road.

—Jay McLean in Where the Road Takes Me

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I don't think you understand how easy it is to make a mistake that will cost you forever.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

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Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed.

—Jan de Hartog

The birds are molting. If only man could molt also—his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

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