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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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I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Benedictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naive faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.
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I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
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