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Things aren't the way they are, they're the way you are

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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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If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.
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it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.
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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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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.
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We sit on the kitchen exchanging these diabolical outgrowths of overfertile minds.
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The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.
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Adolescence is like cactus.
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Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.
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New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
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Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.
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I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
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When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.
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I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.
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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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