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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

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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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
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Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?
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I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.
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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
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Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
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destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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