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The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

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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Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?
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Memory is a great betrayer.
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The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
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She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.
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All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.
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You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
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I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.
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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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... only love begets love.
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You fall in love with people's minds.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
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