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Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

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
Anais Nin
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
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Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
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Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
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Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
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If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.
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I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman
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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
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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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Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
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although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
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