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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.

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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Passion
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Understanding
Hate
Everything
Rarely
Pity

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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
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I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.
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That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
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