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Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence.

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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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You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
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People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
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If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, I have heard Rabelais.. And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.
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If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
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Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.
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When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.
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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.
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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
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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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There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.
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I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.
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I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.
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Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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