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To love and to labor is the sum of living.

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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
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Novelist
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
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The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.
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This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
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The earth is heavy and opaque without dreams.
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the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.
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He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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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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Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
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For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for the writer who is aware of the way in which this connection exists in reality and nourishes creativity, the sooner he can achieve a synthesis among intellect, emotion, and instinct, the sooner his work will be integrated.
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
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I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.
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destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
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Perfection is static, And I am in full progress.
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Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
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The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive. You do not preserve them in alcohol until the moment you are ready to write about them.
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