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Each friend represents a world in us.

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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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jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
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The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.
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For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
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The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.
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It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.
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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
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perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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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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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
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It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
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I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
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I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.
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We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
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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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