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Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.

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 source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
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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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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
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To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
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We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's arms lulled by our love, by tenderness -- sensuality in which the whole being can participate.
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Adolescence is like cactus.
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I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
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Our age has need of violence, he writes. And he is violence.
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All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.
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This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
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The complaints of the child in us will never cease lamenting until it is consoled, answered, understood. Only then will it lie still in us, like our fears. It will die in peace and leave us what the child leaves to the man - the sense of wonder.
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