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perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.

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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The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
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The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
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You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.
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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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The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
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But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
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Memory is a great betrayer.
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When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.
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Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky
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