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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.

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 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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I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.
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I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
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You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.
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Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.
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With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.
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Ordinary life does not interest me.
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... only love begets love.
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Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
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You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
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While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.
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Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.
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