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

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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The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.
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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
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I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.
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I'm sick of my own romanticism!
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.
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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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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
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Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence.
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Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.
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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
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Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
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The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.
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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer.
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If you can't create, you destroy.
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We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.
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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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The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.
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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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