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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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While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.
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When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?
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Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.
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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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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
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I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
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Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.
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Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.
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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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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
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To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.
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I write emotional algebra.
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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