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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Anais Nin

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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
Author
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
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Cloud
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Clouds
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I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
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I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
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Will you come down and kiss me good night?
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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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The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.
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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard
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Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.
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the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.
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I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
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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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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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