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The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
Anais Nin
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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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We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.
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Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
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I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.
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She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.
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Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
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Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence.
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