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You live out the confusions until they become clear.

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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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You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.
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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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notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
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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.
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I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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All unlived emotions turn to inanity.
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Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.
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The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is not athletic: he sees the futility of the pursuit of fame the climate at times depresses him.
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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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