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The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

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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'm sick of my own romanticism!
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Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
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We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Jazz is the music of the body.
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notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
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Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.
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I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
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A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology.
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I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously.
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My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.
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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
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In my dreams I sleep with everybody.
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I needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.
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the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
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I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world and then I stand revealed and I have shared my kingdom with you.
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The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.
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