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The dream has to be translated into reality.

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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
Anais Nin
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Reality
Dream

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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.
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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
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atrophy of feeling creates criminals.
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When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
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Will you come down and kiss me good night?
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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
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Your eyes make me shy
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I will not be just a tourist in a world of images.
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Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
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Solitude may rust your words.
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