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I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

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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You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.
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We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our religions. It is an enormous task because the history of women has been as incompletely told as the history of blacks.
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Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of abundance.
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Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
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All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.
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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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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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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
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When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
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In chaos, there is fertility.
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We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.
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