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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.

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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 shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
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I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.
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I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and there come an end to the interest, and this never happens in a journal!
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Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
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the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
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Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
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Will you come down and kiss me good night?
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I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
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If you can't create, you destroy.
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.
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