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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
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Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
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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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