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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
Vague
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Delicate
Abstract
Profound
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Ecstatically
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Wordless
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the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
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The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
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The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
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The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
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The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.
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Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?
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The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
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Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
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the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Solitude may rust your words.
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The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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