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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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Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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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 will not be just a tourist in a world of images.
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I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage People living deeply have no fear of death.
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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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The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
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My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.
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... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
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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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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.
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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
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The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.
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