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Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

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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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The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.
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I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naive faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
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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 truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.
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We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence.
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