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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

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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There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.
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Everything but happiness is neurosis.
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Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
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Will you come down and kiss me good night?
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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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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
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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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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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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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There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
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Introspection is a devouring monster.
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Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
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When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.
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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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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
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Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
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Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.
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