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I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.

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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 role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
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When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.
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We see things the way we are, not the way they are.
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The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
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