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myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

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
Anais Nin
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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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I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
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Everything but happiness is neurosis.
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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
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The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
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Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.
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perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.
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Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
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Great repressions create dualities.
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In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.
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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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