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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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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.
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All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.
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We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is because it is the I behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.
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The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.
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There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.
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I prefer empty cages, Sabina, until I find a unique bird I once saw in my dreams.
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I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.
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Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.
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