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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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It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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One may gain one truth at the expense of another.
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I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
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I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
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One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
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Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
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Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.
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There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.
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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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The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.
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The leaf fall of his words, the stained glass hues of his moods, the rust in his voice, the smoke in his mouth, his breath on my vision like human breath blinding a mirror.
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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
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