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To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
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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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.
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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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I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.
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We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
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There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.
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I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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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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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.
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