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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.

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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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Solitude may rust your words.
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destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
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I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.
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In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
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I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naive faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
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..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.
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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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