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No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.
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
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I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.
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willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
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I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.
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He had a mania for washing and disinfecting himself. . . . For him the only danger came from the microbes that attacked the body. He had not studied the microbe of conscience which eats into the soul.
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