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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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I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage People living deeply have no fear of death.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
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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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Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
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There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.
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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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I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.
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Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
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Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
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The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
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There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
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It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.
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Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
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