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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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I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
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destruction is ultimately self-destruction.
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Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.
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I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.
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You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.
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I have no brakes on...analysis is for those who are paralyzed by life.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage People living deeply have no fear of death.
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If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
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Hollywood is a mirage factory.
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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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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.
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The basis of insincerity is the idealized image we hold of ourselves and wish to impose on others.
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He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
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Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life. Don't wait for it, I said. Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now.
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To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.
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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.
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