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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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I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.
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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
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You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
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Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
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Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.
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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 mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.
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People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
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[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
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I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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