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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

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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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One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
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The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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Most artists have retired too absolutely they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
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The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
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She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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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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Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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