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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 only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.
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The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
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We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is because it is the I behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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One may gain one truth at the expense of another.
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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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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ
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Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
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All unlived emotions turn to inanity.
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
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I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
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In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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