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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
Anais Nin
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Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.
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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
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The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.
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Write. Write until it stops hurting.
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