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

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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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That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
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We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
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