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The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

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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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Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
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We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
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I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.
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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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If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, I have heard Rabelais.. And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.
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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
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The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
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perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
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Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
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One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
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