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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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I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
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The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
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We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
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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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The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
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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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The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.
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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
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You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
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The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
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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 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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