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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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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
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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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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.
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The dream has to be translated into reality.
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If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, I have heard Rabelais.. And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.
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I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.
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We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.
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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
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Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.
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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
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When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
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When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
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Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.
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