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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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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
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Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
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Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.
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The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
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We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.
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New York has an electronic heart.
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Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
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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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