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We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

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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But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
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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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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.
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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
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Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.
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gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say Anna and then add ees, with the accent on the ees.
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You fall in love with people's minds.
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Balance is not to be sought by association with others it must exist within one's self.
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You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.
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They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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