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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

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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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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
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I'm sick of my own romanticism!
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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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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.
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I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
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There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.
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I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.
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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
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Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.
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