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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

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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 stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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Your eyes make me shy
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Memory is a great betrayer.
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He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
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Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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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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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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myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth
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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.
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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping.
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