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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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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.
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One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard
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The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
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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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We see things the way we are, not the way they are.
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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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To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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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 did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
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Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
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I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
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Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
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Our love lives because I live.
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