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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.

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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
Anais Nin
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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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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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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
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New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
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I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.
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