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You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

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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 had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.
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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.
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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.
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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
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Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
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What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.
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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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