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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 cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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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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In chaos, there is fertility.
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We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.
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I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
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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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All unlived emotions turn to inanity.
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atrophy of feeling creates criminals.
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In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.
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[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
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There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection.
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The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
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it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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 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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Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
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The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.
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