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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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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 hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.
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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'm sick of my own romanticism!
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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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