There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Quote by Anais Nin

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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...

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

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

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...

It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or...

It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or...

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.

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...

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,...

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

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing,...

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing,...

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but...

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but...

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

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...

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning...

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning...

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....

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 artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

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

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

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created...

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created...