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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
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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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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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
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... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.
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I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
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Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
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We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
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... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
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I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
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When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
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At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.
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I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.
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To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.
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If you can't create, you destroy.
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I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
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Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
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Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
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