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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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Novelist
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Writer
Neuilly
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
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Poverty
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I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.
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Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
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Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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We see things the way we are, not the way they are.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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