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Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.

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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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All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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Each friend represents a world in us.
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Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
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When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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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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We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
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A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.
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The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.
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