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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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notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
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It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.
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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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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ
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I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me
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We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
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I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
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The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
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When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.
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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
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The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.
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The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
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Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
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