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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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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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What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.
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If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
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Nothing endures unless it has first been transposed into a myth, and the great advantage of myths is that they are ladies with portable roots.
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The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
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Hollywood is a mirage factory.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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At first she beckoned and lured one into her world then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.
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Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
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I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
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Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
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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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I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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