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Each friend represents a world in us.

Anais Nin

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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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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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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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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.
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For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.
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There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
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I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
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I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
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We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.
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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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You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
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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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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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The dream has to be translated into reality.
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I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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