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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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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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Jazz is the music of the body.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
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I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.
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His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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Will you come down and kiss me good night?
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There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
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