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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

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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Jazz is the music of the body.
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
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Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.
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All unlived emotions turn to inanity.
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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
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Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
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America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.
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The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
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The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
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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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Hollywood is a mirage factory.
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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
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