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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of 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
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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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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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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
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If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.
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Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.
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I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.
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The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.
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