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... only love begets love.

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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 are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
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What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
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Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.
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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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To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.
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There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.
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You cannot save people. You can only love them.
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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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Jazz is the music of the body.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.
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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
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You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
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gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.
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Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.
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Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.
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The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
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The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.
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