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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 have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.
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Dreams are essential to life.
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Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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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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I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.
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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.
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If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.
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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.
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