“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.”
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Anaïs Nin 278
writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977Related quotes
“If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.”
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 8e
“If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.”
Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)
“Where are you this moment?
only in my dreams.
You're missing, but you're always
a heartbeat from me.”
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)
Written in the 1920s, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 8, by William V. Holtz (1993).
Variant: After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won't even be remembered then. Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.
Source: Where Rainbows End
Conclusion, p. 143
Economic Heresies (1971)
Context: Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.
“My guilt walks so slowly that forgiveness and oblivion always catch up with it.”
Mi culpa marcha tan lenta que siempre la alcanzan el perdón y el olvido.
Falsificaciones (1977)
“Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.”
Source: The Grapes of Wrath