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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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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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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.
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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
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I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others to be, not to seem.
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You carry away with you a reflection of me, a part of me. I dreamed you I wished for your existence. You will always be a part of my life. If I love you, it must be because we shared, at some moment, the same imaginings, the same madness, the same stage.
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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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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.
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I write emotional algebra.
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The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.
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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
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