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The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
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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I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.
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I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.
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I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.
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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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I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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I love your silences, they are like mine.
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Anxiety is loves greatest killer.
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.
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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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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
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I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.
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The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard
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I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
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When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.
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Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
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I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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