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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 am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.
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Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.
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I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.
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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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I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
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Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.
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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
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America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.
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I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.
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There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.
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When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.
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perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
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