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


Anaïs Nin

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ANDREA THOMPSON Mystery magnifies danger, as the fog does the sun.
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ANNIE DILLARD Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mys...
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FRANK MCCOURT Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery...
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ARTHUR MACHEN Every branch of human knowledge if traced up to its source and final principles vanishes into myster...
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PAULO COELHO The mystery of the moment is indescribable.
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ANAïS NIN I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emp...
ANAïS NIN I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
ANAïS NIN Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
ANAïS NIN [Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The ful...
ANAïS NIN Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
ANAïS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAïS NIN I write emotional algebra.
ANAïS NIN She was truthful, or I was the greatest dupe who ever existed. I can only believe in our ecstasy. I ...
ANAïS NIN The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
ANAIS NIN The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that ...
ANAIS NIN How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it...
ANAIS NIN Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds o...
ANAIS NIN Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
ANAIS NIN I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
ANAIS NIN There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
ANAIS NIN What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
ANAIS NIN Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
ANAIS NIN Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
ANAIS NIN The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
ANAIS NIN Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It d...
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