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Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

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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 celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
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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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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
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He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.
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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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She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.
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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
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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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To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.
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Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.
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I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me
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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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