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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

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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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I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
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The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
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A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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