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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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We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
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If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
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Hollywood is a mirage factory.
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I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
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You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.
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I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
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We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.
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The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.
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I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
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I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
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I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life. Don't wait for it, I said. Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.
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We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
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Jazz is the music of the body.
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I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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