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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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The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.
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A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
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... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.
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I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.
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Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.
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Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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If you can't create, you destroy.
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To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
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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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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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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 believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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