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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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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
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Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
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America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.
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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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With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.
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I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.
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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
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