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To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

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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 sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.
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I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.
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Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
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I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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