"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."
-Anais Nin
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"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.“
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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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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
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"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
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"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."
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