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We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is because it is the I behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.

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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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We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
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The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.
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My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.
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Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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Will you come down and kiss me good night?
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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New York has an electronic heart.
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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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I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
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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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We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
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destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.
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