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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

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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
Love
Wordless
Sensation
Vague
Sensations
Delicate
Abstract
Profound
Living
Ecstatically

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The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
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