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I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me

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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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Evil
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.
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With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.
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Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.
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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
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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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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
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Dreams are essential to life.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
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The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
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