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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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I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
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I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.
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[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.
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When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.
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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
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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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The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.
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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.
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Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
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perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
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We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.
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The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.
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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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Everything but happiness is neurosis.
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All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
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