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Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

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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 had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.
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There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.
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Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.
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The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
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Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.
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I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
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The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.
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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
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The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.
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In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.
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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
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He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
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