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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 cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
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At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say Anna and then add ees, with the accent on the ees.
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although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
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Dreams are essential to life.
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Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
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You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.
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Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
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What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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Introspection is a devouring monster.
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It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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