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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.

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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People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
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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’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
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Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
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We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.
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... only love begets love.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.
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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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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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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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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others to be, not to seem.
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The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
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The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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