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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

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
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
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Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.
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Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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All unlived emotions turn to inanity.
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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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Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
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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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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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If you can't create, you destroy.
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The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.
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The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
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