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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

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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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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
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His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
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Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
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I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.
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The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.
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Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
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To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
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Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
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Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.
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The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.
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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
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