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

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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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Balance is not to be sought by association with others it must exist within one's self.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life. Don't wait for it, I said. Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.
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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
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[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.
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Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends (she) who judges, selects, discards people with severity, who knows, when she is telling her endless anecdotes, that they are ways of escape, keeping herself all the more secret behind that profuse talk.
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The only transformer and alchemist that turns everything into gold is love. The only magic against death, aging, ordinary life, is love.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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Memory is a great betrayer.
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The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
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I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.
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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard
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If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Hollywood is a mirage factory.
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Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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