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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
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My diary seems to keep me whole.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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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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Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.
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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
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That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
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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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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.
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I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
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Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
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The dream has to be translated into reality.
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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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I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.
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Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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