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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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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atrophy of feeling creates criminals.
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She walked in the shadow of Rango with a great feeling of being taken out of herself, of having no knowledge of what was happening to her, merely a pervading sense of flow.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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