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The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

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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All unlived emotions turn to inanity.
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I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.
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Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.
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You fall in love with people's minds.
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I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
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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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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
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We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
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I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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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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I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.
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