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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 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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I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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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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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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Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
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Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
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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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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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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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When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
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Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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