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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.

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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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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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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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What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
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One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
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