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One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

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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You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.
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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
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I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.
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The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.
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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
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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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I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.
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But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.
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The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
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I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.
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It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
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We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.
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Introspection is a devouring monster.
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Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
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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 stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
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