Anaïs Nin: "Do not seek the because—in love there is..."

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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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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

—Anaïs Nin

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

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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.

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

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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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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Do not seek the because—in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

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