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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

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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 believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
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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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I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
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although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
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Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
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she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
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I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me.
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There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
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In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
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The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
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Each friend represents a world in us.
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The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
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This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
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