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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 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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I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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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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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.
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Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.
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If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, I have heard Rabelais.. And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.
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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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 can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.
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Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
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Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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