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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.

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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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Femaleness
Darkly
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Our love lives because I live.
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What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
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Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.
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Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
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One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.
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[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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You fall in love with people's minds.
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If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.
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I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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Solitude may rust your words.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
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