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Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

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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I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
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Dreams are essential to life.
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I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
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All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others to be, not to seem.
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
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Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
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Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.
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