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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
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Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.
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If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
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