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Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

Anais Nin

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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
Poverty
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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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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
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I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
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It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.
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Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.
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I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.
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Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.
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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
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My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.
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