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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
Anais Nin
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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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The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
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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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Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.
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The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.
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I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
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A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
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I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.
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We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
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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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The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
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We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is because it is the I behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
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Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
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