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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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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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If you can't create, you destroy.
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I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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atrophy of feeling creates criminals.
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.
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I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.
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Dreams are necessary to life.
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There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.
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