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One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

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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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I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
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Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.
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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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If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
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Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.
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Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
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We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
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