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Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

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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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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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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Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
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To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
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When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.
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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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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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If you can't create, you destroy.
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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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His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
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