Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go t…

Anais Nin
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ✨ The Mirror and the Garden : Realism and Reality in the Writings of Anais Nin by Evelyn J. Hinz, (p. 40), 1971.
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