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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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Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
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When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
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I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
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Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
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She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Solitude may rust your words.
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Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.
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A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
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I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.
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Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
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Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
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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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To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
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Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
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There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
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