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

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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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In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, I have heard Rabelais.. And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.
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Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.
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I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ
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My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.
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I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through.
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In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.
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What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
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The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.
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I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
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Analysis does not take into account the creative products of neurotic desires.
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For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.
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[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.
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The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
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I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.
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Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
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