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Balance is not to be sought by association with others it must exist within one's self.
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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We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.
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Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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