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Dreams are necessary to life.

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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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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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The dream has to be translated into reality.
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The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.
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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
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I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.
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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
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