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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

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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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A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
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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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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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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
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The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
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She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.
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Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
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Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.
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Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
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gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.
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