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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
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There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
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although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
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Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence.
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I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
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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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Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
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That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.
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All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.
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I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.
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I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.
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Solitude may rust your words.
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