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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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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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He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.
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Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.
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Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.
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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
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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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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
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Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.
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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.
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In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
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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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Will you come down and kiss me good night?
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