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

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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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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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Hollywood is a mirage factory.
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It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
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The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.
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The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.
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I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
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The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
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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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If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, I have heard Rabelais.. And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.
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Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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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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The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
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I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
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