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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin

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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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I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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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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I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
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I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me
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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Balance is not to be sought by association with others it must exist within one's self.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.
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At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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Anxiety is loves greatest killer.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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