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All unlived emotions turn to inanity.

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 needed to live, but I also needed to record what I lived.
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
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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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Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.
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I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.
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Dreams are essential to life.
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The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the sails.
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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.
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I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
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You live out the confusions until they become clear.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
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Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
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