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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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The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
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The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
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If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.
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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
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One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving.
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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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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.
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Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.
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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
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I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is because it is the I behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
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Introspection is a devouring monster.
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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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