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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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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
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I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
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I'm sick of my own romanticism!
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Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
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When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
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Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
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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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In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.
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... only love begets love.
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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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A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.
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We see things the way we are, not the way they 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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It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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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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The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame the climate at times depresses him.
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