The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Quote by Anais Nin

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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world...

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world...

People living deeply have no fear of death.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

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

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...

If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I...

If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I...

Dreams are necessary to life.

Dreams are necessary to life.

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

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

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...

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to...

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to...

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

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...

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays...

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays...

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more...

People living deeply have no fear of death.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

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

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

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a...

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a...

Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you...

Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you...

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.