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I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension

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 had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
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Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
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He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away.
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When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.
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We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.
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The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.
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I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.
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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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My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
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My diary seems to keep me whole.
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Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others to be, not to seem.
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