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Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.

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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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[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
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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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If you can't create, you destroy.
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