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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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We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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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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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
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I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.
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One may gain one truth at the expense of another.
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I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.
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There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
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Perhaps a child, like a cat, is so much inside of himself that he does not see himself in the mirror.
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
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Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.
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In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
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I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman
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I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.
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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
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For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue — that I had to do the job myself.
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