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Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

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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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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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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
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Our love lives because I live.
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Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.
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The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
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Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
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I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
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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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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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Most artists have retired too absolutely they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
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My diary seems to keep me whole.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
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