Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Quote by Anais Nin

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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we...

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we...

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard....

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard....

Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love...

Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love...

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,...

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive,...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a...

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a...

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the...

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the...

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish...

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish...

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought...

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought...

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and...

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and...

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

People living deeply have no fear of death.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I...

In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the...

In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the...

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He...

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He...

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but,...

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but,...