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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
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One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.
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To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.
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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
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