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They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

Anais Nin

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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 man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later you always give something you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another.
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To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
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The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
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I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.
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All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.
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At first she beckoned and lured one into her world then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.
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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
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[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.
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