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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

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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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Most artists have retired too absolutely they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
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The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
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