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Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.

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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
Anais Nin
Friendship
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The bed must be a beautiful place, not only because you make love there but because you dream there as well.
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The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.
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Introspection is a devouring monster.
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others to be, not to seem.
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Balance is not to be sought by association with others it must exist within one's self.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
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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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We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.
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I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman
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The softness of the summer day like an ermine paw.
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Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.
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