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... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
Anais Nin
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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 only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.
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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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The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.
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I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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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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