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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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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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Jazz is the music of the body.
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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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destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
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When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.
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I'm sick of my own romanticism!
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I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
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I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.
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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 hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
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The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.
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