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A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

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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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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
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We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
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What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
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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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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
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While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.
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I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
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Solitude may rust your words.
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
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