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it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.
Anais Nin
... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
Anais Nin
This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
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the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.
Anais Nin
If you can't create, you destroy.
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The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.
Anais Nin
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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We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.
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All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.
Anais Nin
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais Nin
One may gain one truth at the expense of another.
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The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
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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.
Anais Nin
We see things the way we are, not the way they are.
Anais Nin
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
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Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.
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It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.
Anais Nin
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.
Anais Nin
We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.
Anais Nin