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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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If you can't create, you destroy.
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Introspection is a devouring monster.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
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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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