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My diary seems to keep me whole.

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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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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The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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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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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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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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Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.
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I'm sick of my own romanticism!
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Most artists have retired too absolutely they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.
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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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Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
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I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
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We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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