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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others to be, not to seem.

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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 don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.
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Solitude may rust your words.
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For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.
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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
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Introspection is a devouring monster.
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I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.
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Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.
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There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.
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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.
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I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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