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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
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Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.
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The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.
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One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
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I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.
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I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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