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To love and to labor is the sum of living.

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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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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Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
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I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.
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Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.
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To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.
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I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me
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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Will you come down and kiss me good night?
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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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Now that I am moving, I am afraid. Where am I going?
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One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
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I'm sick of my own romanticism!
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Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be...including our perception. Of it
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In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.
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A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
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I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
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Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.
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