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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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... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
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America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.
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I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.
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