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I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.

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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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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.
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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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I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.
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His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
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I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.
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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.
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We see things the way we are, not the way they are.
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
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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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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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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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