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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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I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.
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Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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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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... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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I had a feeling that Pandora's box contained the mysteries of woman's sensuality, so different from a man's and for which man's language was so inadequate. The language of sex had yet to be invented. The language of the senses was yet to be explored.
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It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
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My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.
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A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
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My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked.
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To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
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Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
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I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .
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I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.
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The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
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When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.
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All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.
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I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
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