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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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Passion gives me moments of wholeness.
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Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.
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The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.
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jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.
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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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When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
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You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
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We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
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The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
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Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.
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Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
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The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.
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Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
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