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notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

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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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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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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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Hollywood is a mirage factory.
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Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.
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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
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He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
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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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The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Balance is not to be sought by association with others it must exist within one's self.
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Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence.
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Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.
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One handles truths like dynamite.
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When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
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