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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

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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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Withhold
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Balance is not to be sought by association with others it must exist within one's self.
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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
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But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.
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You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
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I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
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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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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
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Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.
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All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
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Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
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For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.
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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
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