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

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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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[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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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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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 seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
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Great repressions create dualities.
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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
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All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.
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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.
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I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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You fall in love with people's minds.
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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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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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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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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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I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.
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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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In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.
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