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I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

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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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Everything but happiness is neurosis.
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While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.
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Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.
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The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
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I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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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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We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
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