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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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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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In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.
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It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
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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 believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
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We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.
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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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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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Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
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If you can't create, you destroy.
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Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.
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She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.
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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!
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I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.
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Our love lives because I live.
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