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Dreams are essential to 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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Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
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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
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Introspection is a devouring monster.
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All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
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It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
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The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
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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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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
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