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I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

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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myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.
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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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When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?
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I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.
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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.
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You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.
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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.
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