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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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Solitude may rust your words.
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Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
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There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
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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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Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.
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A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
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Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.
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Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.
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His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.
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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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Love men and women not for their strength but their softness, not for their fullness but their hunger, not for their plenty but their need.
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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness.
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If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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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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We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.
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