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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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I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
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I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
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I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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