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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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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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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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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
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In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.
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Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?
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Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
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I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
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Your eyes make me shy
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.
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Dreams are essential to life.
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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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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