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When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

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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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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
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In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.
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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
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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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One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
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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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If you can't create, you destroy.
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I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and there come an end to the interest, and this never happens in a journal!
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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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A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
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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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We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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