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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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When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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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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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
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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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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
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My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.
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[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.
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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
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One may gain one truth at the expense of another.
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