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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 hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
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There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.
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There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his feeling, the two unite. When men accept the sensitive side of themselves, they come alive.
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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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The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.
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I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.
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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
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To love and to labor is the sum of living.
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
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One always, sooner or later, comes upon a city which is an image of one's inner cities. Fez is an image of my inner self. ... The layers of the city of Fez are like the layers and secrecies of the inner life. One needs a guide. ... There were in Fez, as in my life, streets which led nowhere, impasses which remained a mystery.
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I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From A Journal of Love The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1938 For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.
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Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.
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Solitude may rust your words.
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What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
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To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
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