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I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.

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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Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?
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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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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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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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I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.
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But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
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Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others to be, not to seem.
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With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.
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