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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

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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While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.
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I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
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When you possess light within, you see it externally.
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America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
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Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ
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One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage People living deeply have no fear of death.
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We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
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I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
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Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.
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