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I write emotional algebra.

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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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Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.
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The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
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A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
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Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
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In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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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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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
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Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life. Don't wait for it, I said. Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.
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